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The New York Times best-selling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each - from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir - offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times.
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In a “delightful” odyssey that “will take you places intellectually and humorously” (San Francisco Book Review), Weiner invites us to voyage alongside him on his life-changing pursuit of wisdom and discovery as he attempts to find answers to our most vital questions. The Socrates Express is “full of valuable lessons...a fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent simplicity and bubble-gum philosophy approach and gradually pulls them in deeper and deeper” (NPR).
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It's Easier than You Think
- The Buddhist Way to Happiness
- De: Sylvia Boorstein
- Narrado por: Sylvia Boorstein
- Duración: 2 h y 51 m
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Using delightful and deceptively powerful stories from everyday experiences, beloved Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein demystifies spirituality, charts the path to happiness through the Buddha's basic teachings, and presents the means to eliminate hindrances and see clearly to develop a realistic course toward wisdom and compassion. A wonderfully engaging guide, full of humor, memorable insights, and love. Boorstein, known by friends and colleagues as a "Jewish grandmother bodhisattva," is highly-skilled in making the universal wisdom of traditional Buddhist teachings available to all.
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Simple and elegant
- De Barbara en 01-11-03
De: Sylvia Boorstein
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."
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Love, Politics, and Strange Bedfellows
- De Mel en 07-01-12
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Nicholas Bell
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton has the answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work - his fiction, letter, and conversations – and distils from them that rare self-help manual: one that is actually helpful.
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A nice petite primer on Proust
- De Darwin8u en 02-20-13
De: Alain de Botton
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Siddhartha
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: Harish Bhimani
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha, takes place in ancient India around the time of the Buddha (6th century BC). Siddhartha and his companion Govinda set out in search of enlightenment. Siddhartha goes through a series of changes and realizations as he attempts to achieve this goal. Siddhartha joins the ascetics, visits Gotama, embraces his earthly desires, and finally communes with nature, all in an attempt to attain Nirvana.
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Sounds rushed
- De Viviane en 10-17-11
De: Hermann Hesse
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Pages for You
- The Pages for You Series, Book 1
- De: Sylvia Brownrigg
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
- Duración: 6 h
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In a steam-filled diner in a college town, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she's ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The 17-year-old, new to everything around her - college, the East Coast, bodies of literature, and the sexual flurries of student life - is shocked by her desire to follow this wherever it will take her.
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A gorgeous listen
- De MissLynn en 03-09-20
De: Sylvia Brownrigg
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The Consolations of Philosophy
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: He has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.
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Cheering, empathic, helpful
- De Austin en 11-11-09
De: Alain de Botton
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The Book of Disquiet
- De: Fernando Pessoa
- Narrado por: Adam Sims
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory. Credited to Pessoa’s alter ego, Bernardo Soares, who chronicles his contemplations in this so-called "factless" autobiography, the work is a journey of one man’s soul and, by extension, of all human souls that allow their minds and hearts to roam far and free.
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The book that saved my life
- De Hutchinson en 03-09-21
De: Fernando Pessoa
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He Held Radical Light
- The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
- De: Christian Wiman
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 3 h y 10 m
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Christian Wiman explores the relationships between art and faith, death and fame, heaven and oblivion. Above all, He Held Radical Light is a love letter to poetry, filled with moving, surprising, and sometimes funny encounters with the poets Wiman has known.
De: Christian Wiman
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Guesthouse for Ganesha
- A Novel
- De: Judith Teitelman
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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In 1923, 17-year-old Esther arrives in Köln "with a hardened heart as her sole luggage.” Thus begins a 22-year journey, woven against the European Holocaust and the Hindu Kali Yuga (the “Age of Darkness” when human civilization degenerates spiritually), in search of a place of sanctuary. Throughout her travails, using cunning and shrewdness, Esther relies on her masterful tailoring skills to help mask her Jewish heritage, navigate war-torn Europe, and emigrate to India. Esther’s traveling companion and the novel’s narrator is Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu God....
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A captivating and thought-provoking journey
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 03-16-21
De: Judith Teitelman
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Already Here
- A Doctor Discovers the Truth About Heaven
- De: Leo Galland M.D.
- Narrado por: Leo Galland M.D.
- Duración: 4 h y 2 m
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Already Here tells of the death of Leo Galland's son, Christopher, at age 22; the direct visual evidence Christopher showed Leo that our souls do go on; and the communications from Christopher's spirit that changed Leo's understanding of life and its meaning. In life, Christopher was a brain-damaged special-needs child who challenged everyone he knew with unpredictable behavior and uncanny insights. After his death, he revealed to Leo the real purpose of his life, as a spiritual guide who taught others by confounding their assumptions and expectations.
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I needed this book. thanks Doctor.
- De Anonymous User en 08-08-18
De: Leo Galland M.D.
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The Power of Kindness 10th Anniversary Edition
- The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life
- De: Piero Ferrucci
- Narrado por: Mitch Horowitz
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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When The Power of Kindness first appeared in 2006 it thrilled and challenged listeners with one audacious promise: Your acts of generosity and decency are the secret to a fuller, more satisfying life. Kindness is not some squishy virtue but the very key to your own happiness. With nearly 125,000 copies sold, we're celebrating the book's tenth anniversary with this new edition, featuring a complete new chapter by Piero Ferrucci on the theme of "Harmlessness", which joins his other chapters on virtues such as "Honesty", "Warmth", and "Loyalty".
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Peaceful kindness
- De SR en 07-16-23
De: Piero Ferrucci
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perfect for a precocious 9 year old boy
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Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that the world can be understood in natural rather than supernatural terms, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. In this elegant work, the renowned theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander’s overlooked influence on modern science
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A gleefully gruesome look at the actual science behind the most outlandish, cartoonish, and impossible deaths you can imagine. What would happen if you took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine wearing only a swimsuit? How long could you last if you stood on the surface of the sun? How far could you actually get in digging a hole to China? Paul Doherty, senior staff scientist at San Francisco's famed Exploratorium Museum, and writer Cody Cassidy explore the real science behind these and other fantastical scenarios.
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fascinating overall, too much drama
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promoting innovation and industrial disease
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Before World War II, transparent government was a proud tradition in the United States. In all but the most serious of circumstances, classification, covert operations, and spying were considered deeply un-American. But after the war, the power to decide what could be kept secret proved too tempting to give up. Since then, we have radically departed from that open tradition, allowing intelligence agencies, black sites, and classified laboratories to grow unchecked. Officials insist that only secrecy can keep us safe, but its true costs have gone unacknowledged for too long.
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Through inspirational storytelling, scientific evidence, practical advice, captivating exercises, and poetry, Dr. Sanjiv Chopra and Gina Vild present a powerful message that shows you how to achieve happiness no matter the challenges and stumbling blocks you face along the way. They also reveal the best way to be happy: Discover and live your life's purpose. It's a sure path to human flourishing. In fact, you may be surprised to learn that living with purpose can even add years to your life.
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A walk through time
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The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes listeners on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the US-Mexico border where the river runs dry.
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Water issues are never about only water.
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The Lessons of Tragedy
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The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and courage - to spur citizens and their leaders to take the difficult actions necessary to avert such a fate. Today, after more than 70 years of great-power peace, Americans have lost their sense of tragedy. They have forgotten that the descent into violence and war has been all too common throughout human history.
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The authors should read Oedipus Rex and Aristotle
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Alcohol and Medicine have an inextricably intertwined history, with innovations in each altering the path of the other. The story stretches back to ancient times, when beer and wine were used to provide nutrition and hydration, and were employed as solvents for healing botanicals. Over time, alchemists distilled elixirs designed to cure all diseases, monastic apothecaries developed mystical botanical liqueurs, traveling physicians concocted dubious intoxicating nostrums, and the drinks we’re familiar with today began to take form.
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The Hardest Job in the World
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The American presidency is in trouble. It has become overburdened, misunderstood, almost impossible to do. “The problems in the job unfolded before Donald Trump was elected, and the challenges of governing today will confront his successors”, writes John Dickerson. After all, the founders never intended for our system of checks and balances to have one superior Chief Magistrate, with Congress demoted to “the little brother who can’t keep up”.
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Couldn’t wait for this book!
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- Andrew
- 08-31-20
An approachable take on philosophy
I do not have a background in philosophy. I have heard a philosopher speak exactly once for about 30 minutes in my entire life. This book was a great introduction not only to the thinking of several great philosophers, but into how those philosophies might be practically applied to my day-to-day life, or at least my thinking. Weiner takes a lofty subject and makes it both relatable and practical. The reading is pleasant to listen to.
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- Ann F.
- 06-16-21
Great for the philosophy curious!!
So funny, yet thought provoking & insightful. Fun for people who love philosophy and those who don’t know they love it YET!! I think I’ll listen to this again & again.
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- Mark Bailey
- 09-20-20
Great audio book!
Just buy it... you definitely won't regret it! Great stories and insight into brilliant philosophical minds. Excited to listen to it again and take notes this time.
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- Harold Hites
- 09-20-20
Great book!
Loved it! my personal favorites were the stories about having philosophical conversations with his 13 year old daughter!
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- Jack Wynd
- 09-20-22
An eye opening guided tour through Philosophy
Eric Weiner has done something incredibly in presenting a curated mix of philosophies contextualized by the stories of their founding and the lives of their founders.
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- Josh McCrarey
- 04-08-24
Not too heady, not too light.
I enjoyed this book thoroughly. A great introduction to the big concepts of heavy-weight philosophical thinkers, packaged within a narrative about travel.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-20
Thoughtful
A great introduction to the world of philosophy. Eric Weiner brings to life the thought processes of many great philosophers. He simplifies, where possible, but leaves room for you to take your own lessons from deep, historical, and some not so historical thoughts. An amazing feat to turn 14 years of in depth research and travel into just 12 hours of thought provoking wonder.
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- Pinolero
- 02-10-22
Muy bien libro.
Pone la filosofía al alcance de todos. Me está gustando como conecta con los filósofos y los humaniza
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- Bread
- 06-02-23
hey hey
This is my new review and it's working out great. hope you loke this book
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- NotTheDuchess
- 08-28-20
Wisdom, Wit and Warmth
I absolutely LOVED this book — just what I needed in this time of anxiety and uncertainty (a pandemic, political zaniness, etc). Eric Weiner is a reassuring, witty and worldly companion who takes us on his quest around the world (damn, have I missed being able to travel!) Experiencing wonder and gaining wisdom with a down-to-earth guide (and exceptional writer) was a welcome joy and absolute delight.
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