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- De: Robert D. Richardson
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie
- Duración: 26 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally!
- De Douglas en 08-15-14
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My Rebbe
- De: Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
- Narrado por: Shlomo Zacks
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Part biography, part memoir, part manual for great leadership, My Rebbe explores the evolution of Chabad's global success, its central beliefs and practices, the Rebbe's personal history, and his vision to inspire change. This moving narrative, written by one of today's most influential Jewish thinkers, will motivate listeners to contemplate their own mission in the world and aspire toward meaningful living.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceeds Expectations
- De csm en 07-04-15
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Incarnations
- India in Fifty Lives
- De: Sunil Khilnani
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world's largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars, and corporate titans - some famous, some unjustly forgotten - bring feeling, wry humor, and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen, the author is biased
- De Anonymous User en 02-15-19
De: Sunil Khilnani
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Nostalgia
- Going Home in a Homeless World
- De: Anthony Esolen
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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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William Blake vs the World
- De: John Higgs
- Narrado por: John Higgs
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book ever
- De idamae en 11-04-22
De: John Higgs
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay
- The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
- De: Marcus Rediker
- Narrado por: Cornell Womack
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man - a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He performed public guerrilla theater to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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stunning story
- De Austin Choi-Fitz en 10-05-17
De: Marcus Rediker
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One Nation, Under Gods
- A New American History
- De: Peter Manseau
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
At the heart of the nation's spiritual history are audacious and often violent scenes. But the Puritans and the shining city on the hill give us just one way to understand the United States. Rather than recite American history from a Christian vantage point, Peter Manseau proves that what really happened is worth a close, fresh look.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tapestry of different pieces makes for a whole
- De Gary en 03-23-15
De: Peter Manseau
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The Novel of the Century
- The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
- De: David Bellos
- Narrado por: David Bellos
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Putting a century of scholarship on one of the world's most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general audience. Packed full of information about the book's origins and later career on stage and screen, The Novel of the Century brings to life the extraordinary story of how Victor Hugo managed to write his novel of the downtrodden despite a revolution, a coup d'etat, and political exile.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The making of a classic!
- De Karen Creeden en 05-27-20
De: David Bellos
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Printer's Error
- Irreverent Stories from Book History
- De: Rebecca Romney, J. P. Romney
- Narrado por: J.P. Romney
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer's Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing. Take, for example, the Gutenberg Bible. While the book is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg's name doesn't appear anywhere on it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Porn for Ye Old Bibliophiles
- De George M. Liveakos en 03-24-17
De: Rebecca Romney, y otros
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- De Rebecca en 05-29-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 18 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 465
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 415
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 416
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the 18th and 19th centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics - contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. This book is not just about Scotland: it is an exciting account of the origins of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eagerly Awaited Audiobook
- De Lulu en 09-01-16
De: Arthur Herman
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Life Is Worth Living, Part 1
- De: Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
- Narrado por: Fulton J. Sheen
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 380
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 325
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 322
Here is the best of the audio from the famous Catholic television program, "Life is Worth Living!" For more than 30 years, Archbishop Fulton Sheen was the voice of the Catholic Church, with his radio and television ministries that touched hearts all over the world. His wisdom and gentle insight are once again available in digitally remastered audio recorded from his live programs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing audiobook!!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 07-03-14
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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
- Versión completa
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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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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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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Who Is This Man?
- The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus
- De: John Ortberg
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 281
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 239
Best-selling author John Ortberg shares how Jesus' influence has swept over history and how his vision of life continues to impact humanity today. Jesus' impact on our world is highly unlikely, widely inescapable, largely unknown, and decidedly double-edged. It is unlikely in light of the severe limitations of his earthly life; it is inescapable because of the range of impact; it is unknown because history doesn't connect dots; and it is doubled-edged because his followers have wreaked so much havoc, often in his name.
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3 out of 5 stars
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NOT narrated by John Ortberg, sadly
- De T. Harris en 08-15-12
De: John Ortberg
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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 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 922
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 916
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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- De: Lewis Hyde, Michael Chabon - foreword
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In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism.
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WOAH!!
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A Primer for Forgetting
- Getting Past the Past
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We live in a culture that prizes memory - how much we can store, the quality of what’s preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear - be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness - but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and forgiveness?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unfortunately ruined by bell ringing after every few sentences.
- De Mary F. en 07-03-19
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Ignore Everybody
- And 39 Other Keys to Creativity
- De: Hugh MacLeod
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When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog - gapingvoid.com - and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures. MacLeod has opinions on everything from marketing to the meaning of life, but one of his main subjects is creativity. How do new ideas emerge in a cynical, risk-averse world?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ignore this book !
- De Tim en 08-03-09
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The Gift
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World renowned psychologist and internationally bestselling author Edith Eger’s powerful New York Times bestselling book The Choice told the story of her survival in the concentration camps, her escape, healing, and journey to freedom. Eger’s second book, The Gift, expands on her message of healing and provides a hands-on guide that gently encourages listeners to change the thoughts and behaviors that may be keeping them imprisoned in the past.
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Reality Hunger
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Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores - the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real - play out constantly around us, and Reality Hungeris a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness'.
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A great intellectual and creative tool for serious writers
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The Ecstasy of Influence
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A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any he’s written, this volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring, and Marlon Brando, as well as on a shelf’s worth of his literary models and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Paula Fox, Bret Easton Ellis, James Wood, and others.
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A lifetime of sharing is understandable long read.
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Trickster Makes This World
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In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism.
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We live in a culture that prizes memory - how much we can store, the quality of what’s preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear - be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness - but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and forgiveness?
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When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog - gapingvoid.com - and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures. MacLeod has opinions on everything from marketing to the meaning of life, but one of his main subjects is creativity. How do new ideas emerge in a cynical, risk-averse world?
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Ignore this book !
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Wisdom Sits in Places
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Most of us use the term sense of place often and rather carelessly when we think of nature or home or literature. Our senses of place, however, come not only from our individual experiences but also from our cultures. Wisdom Sits in Places, the first sustained study of places and place explores place, places, and what they mean to a particular group of people, the Western Apache in Arizona. For more than 30 years, Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book for those interested in Anthropology and Ethnography
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On Writers and Writing
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What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as "gifted", who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?
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l just love Margaret Atwood.
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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Plain English
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In simple and straightforward language, Bhante Gunaratana shares the Buddha's teachings on mindfulness and how we can use these principles to improve our daily lives, deepen our mindfulness, and move closer to our spiritual goals. Based on the classic Satipatthana Sutta, one of the most succinct yet rich explanations of meditation, Bhante's presentation is nonetheless thoroughly modern.
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Great help for establishing an effective mindfulness practice
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William Blake vs the World
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A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake.
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Best book ever
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Be Well
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From board-certified psychiatrist and social media star Dr. Jessica Clemons, a.k.a. “Dr. Jess”, comes Be Well, a comprehensive, accessible guide to the most common mental health conditions, treatments, and overcoming the stigma surrounding these topics to seek out the care you and your loved ones deserve.
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Informational and Resourceful
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This Year Will Be Different provides straightforward strategies and inspirational guidance to ensure you stop living your life on repeat. Domonique Bertolucci offers the tools and motivation to help us build the confidence, resilience and courage required to live our happiest and most fulfilling life.
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practical
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Rework
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,999
With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who's ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs who want to get out, and artists who don't want to starve anymore will all find valuable inspiration and guidance in these pages. It's time to rework work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Simple, Quick, Timely, Contrarian Advice
- De Paul en 06-18-10
De: Jason Fried, y otros
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Start Where You Are
- A Guide to Compassionate Living
- De: Pema Chodron
- Narrado por: Joanna Rotté
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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Start Where You Are is an indispensable audiobook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön offers guidance on how we can accept our flaws and embrace ourselves wholeheartedly as a prerequisite for developing compassion.
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1 out of 5 stars
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No thank you
- De Susan V. en 06-22-21
De: Pema Chodron
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Life of Pi
- De: Yann Martel
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories and practices not only his native Hinduism but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is 16, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450 pound Bengal tiger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story and superb voice acting.
- De James Barmore en 12-11-18
De: Yann Martel
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Good Anxiety
- Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion
- De: Dr. Wendy Suzuki
- Narrado por: Dr. Wendy Suzuki
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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We are living in the age of anxiety, a situation that often makes us feel as if we are locked into an endless cycle of stress, sleeplessness, and worry. But what if we had a way to leverage our anxiety to help us solve problems and fortify our well-being? What if, instead of seeing anxiety as a curse, we could recognize it for the unique gift that it is? As a neuroscientist, Dr. Wendy Suzuki has discovered a paradigm-shifting truth about anxiety: Yes, it is uncomfortable, but it is also essential for our survival. In fact, anxiety is a key component of our ability to live optimally.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Waste of money
- De amazonreviewer en 09-10-21
De: Dr. Wendy Suzuki
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Bird by Bird
- Some Instructions on Writing and Life
- De: Anne Lamott
- Narrado por: Anne Lamott
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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For a quarter century, more than a million readers and listeners—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father—also a writer—in the iconic passage that gives the book its title.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Why oh why did she narrate this?!
- De Amor Fati en 01-02-23
De: Anne Lamott
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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- De: Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Narrado por: Tovah Feldshuh
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 5,551
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4,897
A powerful, moving memoir - and a practical guide to healing - written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients and allow them to escape the prisons of their own minds. The Choice weaves Eger's personal story with case studies from her work as a psychologist. Her patients and their stories illustrate different phases of healing and show how people can choose to escape the prisons they construct in their minds and find freedom, regardless of circumstance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Of The Most Powerful Books I Have Read in My Lifetime!
- De R. F. Wood en 05-11-18
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Gift
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- Jeffrey A Mosser
- 02-12-22
a great reminder
Reread this book via Audible and it felt easier to absorb. Such a great reminder of where we are and where were going. Translates beyond arts to Non-Profits and other service orgs too.
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- Leopard
- 04-02-24
The performance of the reading is very good.
The main thesis on the gift economy is superb. Even more so as we are awash in the crass money driven values of the social media economy.
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- Kevin
- 04-21-24
Revised edition of an already vast treatment
This was a deep dive into a very narrow and focused topic, and if you want to think more intentionally about the value of your work as well as any labor you put into passion projects of any kind… this is for you.
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- E.L.
- 03-18-22
A 2 hour book crammed into 13.5 hours.
The first hour of this book was interesting. The last chapter was a good recap. The middle 11.5 hours was a painfully belabored treatise on poetic inspiration. I got to a point that I thought to myself "If he mentions or quotes Whitman one more time I am going to kill myself". Don't waste your time.
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