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  • Plato's Republic | Plato
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    Plato's Republic
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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release Date: 04-01-16
      • 4.5 (254 ratings)
    Plato's Republic

    Plato's Republic

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    • By Plato
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    The Republic poses questions that endure: What is justice? What form of community fosters the best possible life for human beings? What is the nature and destiny of the soul? What form of education provides the best leaders for a good republic? What are the various forms of poetry and the other arts, and which ones should be fostered and which ones should be discouraged? How does knowing differ from believing?

    Benjamin Myers says: "Spectacular"
  • Black Like Me | John Howard Griffin
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    Black Like Me

    Black Like Me

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    • By John Howard Griffin
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    Writer John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race. Through medication, he dyed his skin dark and left his family and home in Texas to find out.

    Tim says: "Absolutely Stunning!"
  • Plato's Phaedo | Plato
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    Plato's Phaedo
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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release Date: 03-08-16
      • 4.8 (34 ratings)
    Plato's Phaedo

    Plato's Phaedo

    • UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 39 mins)
    • By Plato
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    Socrates is in prison, sentenced to die when the sun sets. In this final conversation, he asks what will become of him once he drinks the poison prescribed for his execution. Socrates and his friends examine several arguments designed to prove that the soul is immortal. This quest leads him to the broader topic of the nature of mind and its connection not only to human existence but also to the cosmos itself. What could be a better way to pass the time between now and the sunset?

    Amazon Customer says: "Wonderful"
  • Plato's Apology | Plato
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    Plato's Apology
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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release Date: 04-01-16
      • 4.8 (62 ratings)
    Plato's Apology

    Plato's Apology

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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
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    Socrates is on trial for his life. He is charged with impiety and corrupting young people. He presents his own defense, explaining why he has devoted his life to challenging the most powerful and important people in the Greek world. The reason is that rich and famous politicians, priests, poets, and a host of others pretend to know what is good, true, holy, and beautiful, but when Socrates questions them, they are shown to be foolish rather than wise.

    J. Roche says: "Another well acted presentation"
  • Plato's Meno | Plato
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    Plato's Meno
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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 48 mins
    • Release Date: 03-08-16
      • 4.4 (32 ratings)
    Plato's Meno

    Plato's Meno

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    • By Plato
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    A dialogue between Socrates and Meno probes the subject of ethics. Can goodness be taught? If it can, then we should be able to find teachers capable of instructing others about what is good and bad, right and wrong, or just and unjust.

    Nelson Alexander says: "Why Incomplete?"
  • Plato's Gorgias | Plato
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    Plato's Gorgias
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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release Date: 03-08-16
      • 4.7 (42 ratings)
    Plato's Gorgias

    Plato's Gorgias

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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
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    Gorgias of Leontini, a famous teacher of rhetoric, has come to Athens to recruit students, promising to teach them how to become leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' house to hear Gorgias demonstrate the power of his art. This dialogue blends comic and serious discussion of the best life, providing a penetrating examination of ethics.

    bayani says: "ray childs hits it out of the park
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  • Plato's Euthyphro | Plato
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    Plato's Euthyphro
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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 33 mins
    • Release Date: 03-08-16
      • 4.8 (37 ratings)
    Plato's Euthyphro

    Plato's Euthyphro

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    • By Plato
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    In Euthyphro, Socrates is on his way to the court, where he must defend himself against serious charges brought by religious and political authorities. On the way he meets Euthyphro, an expert on religious matters who has come to prosecute his own father. Socrates questions Euthyphro's claim that religion serves as the basis for ethics. Euthyphro is not able to provide satisfactory answers to Socrates' questions, but their dialogue leaves us with the challenge of making a reasonable connection between ethics and religion.

    J. Roche says: "Well balanced and engaging. A good start."
  • Aristotle's Poetics | Aristotle
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    Aristotle's Poetics
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    • By Aristotle
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release Date: 04-04-16
      • 4.3 (31 ratings)
    Aristotle's Poetics

    Aristotle's Poetics

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    • By Aristotle
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    Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definitions and analyses of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our age, when the natural and social sciences have dominated the quest for truth, it is helpful to consider why Aristotle claimed poetry is more philosophical and more significant than history. Like so many other works by Aristotle, the Poetics has dominated the way we have thought about all forms of dramatic performance in Europe and America ever since.

  • Plato's Crito | Plato
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    Plato's Crito
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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release Date: 04-01-16
      • 4.8 (36 ratings)
    Plato's Crito

    Plato's Crito

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    • By Plato
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    The Athenian court has found Socrates guilty and sentenced him to death. While he is waiting to be executed, his friend, Crito, comes to the prison to persuade him to escape and go into exile. Socrates responds by examining the essence of law and community, probing the various kinds of law and making distinctions that go far beyond the particular issue of whether or not Socrates should escape.

    Byron says: "Bravo!"
  • A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns | Gene Hill
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    A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns

    A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns

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    • By Gene Hill
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
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    The legendary American outdoor writer’s finest collection. For decades, Gene Hill’s articles and books have captured the spirit of the outdoors in a way that inspires and entertains millions of readers. A Hunter’s Fireside Book captures the essence of the life of a sportsman and explores the full spectrum of the hunter’s experience: sunrises in the duck blind, an unforgettable hunter’s moon, the camaraderie of men who know the pleasures of being wet and cold and a little bit lost.

    Rachel says: "Great."
  • The Function of Reason | Alfred North Whitehead
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    The Function of Reason

    The Function of Reason

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    • By Alfred North Whitehead
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    Whitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current. The scientific materialism that Whitehead opposed with such vigor continues to dominate in academic circles, and even now those who question that worldview are often accused of being antiscientific. This is especially true in discussions of the nature of the human mind and its relation to the body (particularly the brain).

  • Dao De Jing | Laozi
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    Dao De Jing
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    • By Laozi
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
    • Release Date: 03-08-16
      • 4.8 (6 ratings)
    Dao De Jing

    Dao De Jing

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    • By Laozi
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    The Dao De Jing exists on the border between poetry and philosophy, embracing both mythos and logos. Its poetic form can stand alone, but it is enriched when its timeless ideas are analyzed and explained through careful scholarship. For example: He who knows others is knowledgeable. He who knows himself is wise. These words resemble Socrates' account of his own quest in Plato's Apology.

  • Plato's Phaedrus | Plato
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    Plato's Phaedrus
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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
    • Release Date: 03-08-16
      • 4.8 (37 ratings)
    Plato's Phaedrus

    Plato's Phaedrus

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    • By Plato
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    Phaedrus lures Socrates outside the walls of Athens, where he seldom goes, by promising to share a new work by his friend and mentor, Lysias, a famous writer of speeches. This dialogue provides a powerful example of the dialectical writing that Plato uses to manifest ideas that are essential to human existence and to living a good life. Phaedrus shows how oral and written forms of language relate to each other and to philosophy.

    Stefan Balan says: "Plato's probably mots poetical dialogue."
  • Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World | Gerard Helferich
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    Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World

    Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World

    • UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 23 mins)
    • By Gerard Helferich
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
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    The thrilling story of the charismatic explorer who Simon Bolivar called "the true discoverer of South America" and the daring expedition that altered the course of science. From 1799 to 1804 German naturalist and adventurer Alexander von Humboldt conducted the first extensive scientific exploration of Latin America.

    Mark D. Jones says: "Excellent book about someone I knew nothing about"
  • Plato's Laches | Plato
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    Plato's Laches
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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 59 mins
    • Release Date: 03-08-16
      • 4.8 (24 ratings)
    Plato's Laches

    Plato's Laches

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    • By Plato
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
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    Laches, a general in the Athenian army, saw Socrates fight bravely in the battle of Delium. When he and Nicias, another general, are asked to explain the idea of courage, they are at a loss, and words fail them. How does courage differ from thoughtless and reckless audacity? Can a lion be said to be courageous? What about small children who have little idea of the dangers they face? Should we call people courageous who do not know whether their bravery will produce good or bad consequences?

    Amazon Customer says: "Elegant"
  • Boston Bruins: Greatest Moments and Players | Stan Fischler
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    Boston Bruins: Greatest Moments and Players

    Boston Bruins: Greatest Moments and Players

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    • By Stan Fischler
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    Skate the length of the ice with the greatest legends of Boston Bruins hockey - newly updated! Written by hockey's most authoritative author, this is the definitive collection of Boston Bruins history

  • Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy | Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy

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    • By Friedrich Nietzsche
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    In this, his first book, Nietzsche developed a way of thinking about the arts that unites the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus as the central symbol of human existence. Although tragedy serves as the focus of this work, music, visual art, dance, and the other arts can also be viewed using Nietzsche's analysis and integration of the Apollonian and the Dionysian. The Birth of Tragedy stands alongside Aristotle's Poetics as an essential work for all who seek to understand poetry and its relationship to human life.

    Tim Parsons says: "boring"
  • Hume's Dialogues | David Hume
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    Hume's Dialogues
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    • By David Hume
    • Narrated By Ray Childs
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release Date: 03-08-16
      • 4.3 (8 ratings)
    Hume's Dialogues

    Hume's Dialogues

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    • By David Hume
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    David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion had not yet been published when he died in 1776. Even though the manuscript was mostly written during the 1750s, it did not appear until 1779. The subject itself was too delicate and controversial, and Hume's dialectical examination of religious knowledge was especially provocative. What should we teach young people about religion? The characters Demea, Cleanthes, and Philo passionately present and defend three sharply different answers to that question.

    Jack Patterson says: "Great little audio book"
  • The Calypso Directive: A Novel | Brian Andrews
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    The Calypso Directive: A Novel
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    The Calypso Directive: A Novel

    The Calypso Directive: A Novel

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    • By Brian Andrews
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    For 155 days, Will Foster has been locked in medical quarantine without his consent. The doctors claim he is infected with a deadly virus, but this is a lie. Encoded in his DNA is a mutation that provides immunity from disease for all who possess it, source code that Vyrogen Pharmaceuticals aims to commercialize as a multi-billion dollar gene therapy. Against all odds, Foster escapes his laboratory prison and steals a virulent strain of bubonic plague as insurance. To help him unravel the mystery inside him, Foster contacts the only person he can trust - a former lover and microbiologist living Vienna - and the two become fugitives.

    Ann says: "Horrendous!"
  • The Vanderbilts | Jerry E. Patterson
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    The Vanderbilts
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    The Vanderbilts

    The Vanderbilts

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    • By Jerry E. Patterson
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    Cornelius Vanderbilt parlayed a $100.00 investment into the largest private transportation company in the world while creating an American Dynasty in New York, Newport, Vermont, and Asheville, North Carolina. This history of his family and their lush, opulent lifestyle is filled with juicy stories and fun tidbits about their lives in the Gilded Era.

    Tracy says: "It only brushes the cold marble surface"
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