50 Politics Classics: Freedom Equality Power

50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing, Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking From Fifty Key Books

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Tom Butler-Bowdon
• Narrated By Sean Pratt
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From Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics provides a lively entry point to the field of philosophy. Analyses of key works by Descartes, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Heidegger, and Nietzsche also show how philosophy helped shape the thinking and events of the last 150 years.

50 Psychology Classics

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Tom Butler-Bowdon
• Narrated By Lloyd James

Spanning hundreds of ideas developed over the past century, 50 Psychology Classics also explores important contemporary writings, such as Gladwell's Blink and Seligman's Authentic Happiness. Listeners will gain insight into the scientific research of leading contemporary psychologists, psychiatrists, and neurologists. And they'll discover why we think and act the way we do from the landmark best sellers of psychology.

50 Economics Classics: Your Shortcut to the Most Important Ideas on Capitalism, Finance, and the Global Economy

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Tom Butler-Bowdon
• Narrated By John Chancer
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Understand the greatest books in economics with the latest volume in the best-selling 50 Classics series. From Karl Marx to Naomi Klein, from The Wealth of Nations to Piketty's Capital, here are the 50 most important titles on finance and world economy distilled. 50 Economics Classics considers the legacy of some of the great names including Ricardo, Keynes, Malthus and Friedman and highlights the work of newer writers including Piketty, Luigi Zingales and Enrico Moretti.

50 Spiritual Classics

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Tom Butler-Bowdon
• Narrated By Richard Poe

Discover the books that have already changed the lives of millions. This unabridged guide to the literature of the spirit surveys 50 of the all-time classics, giving you their key ideas, insights, and applications - everything you need to know to start benefiting from these legendary works.

50 Self-Help Classics

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Tom Butler-Bowdon
• Narrated By Jack Garrett

Discover the books that have already changed the lives of millions. This award-winning, unabridged guide to the "literature of possibility" surveys 50 of the all-time classics, giving you their key ideas, insights, and applications, everything you need to know to start benefiting from these legendary works.

50 Prosperity Classics: Attract It, Create It, Manage It, Share It

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Tom Butler-Bowdon
• Narrated By Lloyd James

50 Prosperity Classics examines the great works of entrepreneurship, personal finance, investing, economics, and philanthropy. Applying the 50 Classics formula, it highlights the key titles in the literature of prosperity, giving concise summaries of each book's main points, how they came into being, and what each offers the listener on their path toward a life of abundance. This is a comprehensive resource for creating wealth, managing financial assets, and finally giving something back.

50 Success Classics

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Tom Butler-Bowden
• Narrated By Richard Davidson

Discover the books that have already enriched millions. This unabridged guide to the literature of prosperity and motivation surveys 50 of the all-time classics, giving you their key ideas, insights, and applications, everything you need to know to start benefiting from these legendary works.

Your Way to Success: 50 Success Classics, 50 Self-Help Classics, 50 Prosperity Classics

• UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Tom Butler-Bowden
• Narrated By Sean Pratt, Richard Davidson, Jack Garrett

These unabridged guides to the literature of prosperity and motivation survey the all-time classics, giving you their key ideas, insights, and applications - everything you need to know to start benefiting from these legendary works. Discover the books that have already enriched millions.

Food: A Cultural Culinary History

• ORIGINAL (18 hrs and 22 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Ken Albala

Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to obtain food has been a major catalyst across all of history, from prehistoric times to the present. Epicure Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said it best: "Gastronomy governs the whole life of man."

A Little History of Economics

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Niall Kishtainy
• Narrated By Steven Crossley
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What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, yet the unfamiliar jargon and math of economics can seem daunting. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young listeners new to economics and to all listeners who seek a better understanding of the full sweep of economic history and ideas.

Thinking Like an Economist: A Guide to Rational Decision Making

• ORIGINAL (6 hrs and 10 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Randall Bartlett

Economic forces are everywhere around you. But that doesn't mean you need to passively accept whatever outcome those forces might press upon you. Instead, with these 12 fast-moving and crystal clear lectures, you can learn how to use a small handful of basic nuts-and-bolts principles to turn those same forces to your own advantage.

No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 7 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Robert C. Solomon

What is life? What is my place in it? What choices do these questions obligate me to make? More than a half-century after it burst upon the intellectual scene - with roots that extend to the mid-19th century - Existentialism's quest to answer these most fundamental questions of individual responsibility, morality, and personal freedom, life has continued to exert a profound attraction.

The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Steven Sloman, Philip Fernbach
• Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
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Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don't even know how a pen or a toilet works. How have we achieved so much despite understanding so little? Cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach argue that we survive and thrive despite our mental shortcomings because we live in a rich community of knowledge. The key to our intelligence lies in the people and things around us.

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
• Narrated By Jeff Cummings

We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than corporate research labs. MIT's Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson know what it takes to master this digital-powered shift: we must rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd.

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Pankaj Mishra
• Narrated By Derek Perkins
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How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the 18th century before leading us to the present.

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Daniel C. Dennett
• Narrated By Tom Perkins

What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture.

The Foundations of Western Civilization

• ORIGINAL (24 hrs and 54 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Thomas F. X. Noble

What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.

The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Agustín Fuentes
• Narrated By Agustín Fuentes
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In the tradition of Jared Diamond's million-copy-selling classic Guns, Germs, and Steel, a bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth? Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight.

Mind-Body Philosophy

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 21 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Patrick Grim PhD

How is it that our brain creates all the subjective experiences of our lives every single day - the experiences we call reality? That is the mind-body problem. In Mind-Body Philosophy, Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook leads an intellectually exhilarating tour through millennia of philosophy and science addressing one of life's greatest conundrums. But you won't just be a spectator as Dr. Grim engages and encourages each of us to come to our own conclusions.

A Macat Analysis of David Hume's An Enquiry of Human Understanding

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 33 mins)
• By Michael O'Sullivan
• Narrated By Macat.com

A work that had a huge influence on great thinkers including celebrated German philosopher Immanuel Kant, An Enquiry is Hume's examination of how we obtain information and form beliefs. He argues that we mainly gain knowledge through our senses, a theory known as empiricism. But while the impressions from our senses are key to our beliefs about the world, Hume argues that reason and facts play only a limited part.

World Order

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Henry Kissinger
• Narrated By Nicholas Hormann

Henry Kissinger has traveled the world, advised presidents, and been a close observer and participant in the central foreign policy events of our era. Now he offers his analysis of the twenty first century's ultimate challenge: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historic perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism.

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Geoffrey West
• Narrated By Bruce Mann
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Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term complexity can be misleading, however, because what makes West's discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of living systems, including our bodies, our cities, and our businesses.

The American Civil War

• ORIGINAL (24 hrs and 36 mins)
• By The Great Courses, Gary W. Gallagher
• Narrated By Professor Gary W. Gallagher

Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles, those streams ran red with blood-and the United States was truly born.

Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 57 mins)
• By The Great Courses, Robert Sapolsky
• Narrated By Professor Robert Sapolsky

Understanding our humanity - the essence of who we are - is one of the deepest mysteries and biggest challenges in modern science. Why do we have bad moods? Why are we capable of having such strange dreams? How can metaphors in our language hold such sway on our actions? As we learn more about the mechanisms of human behavior through evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology, and other related fields, we're discovering just how intriguing the human species is.