Self Invention

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    • What You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration
    • By: Patricia Nolan-Brown
    • Narrated by: Karen Saltus
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor....

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    • The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: Julie Teal
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • When did we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect to have the right to determine our own lives? When did we first ask the question, how can I be free? It all began in the 1790s in a quiet university town in Germany....

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    • A Life of Learning Through Failure
    • By: James Dyson
    • Narrated by: James Dyson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life....

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    • The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
    • By: Kevin Ashton
    • Narrated by: Kevin Ashton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 513 ratings
    • As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new....

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    • Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
    • By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    • Narrated by: Michael Beck
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Western exceptionalism - the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent - is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others....

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    • The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: Julie Teal
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today....

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    • A Life
    • By: James Dyson
    • Narrated by: James Dyson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner that would transform the way houses are cleaned around the world....

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    • Tales from the Inventor
    • By: Robert J. Bear
    • Narrated by: Samantha Novak
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Have you ever had an idea? Could it change the world? Where do you go first? What will be your invention journey? The following are stories of invention written by their inventors because their paths to success just may show you the way....

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    • By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • Narrated by: Aida-Maria Boiesan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The great Marcus Tillius Cicero was a well-known statesman during the time of Caesar and a revolutionary orator. In On Invention, Cicero offers his reflections on rhetoric at only 21 years of age....

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    • Think Different; Break Free From the Culture Hell Bent on Holding You Back
    • By: Justin J. Camp
    • Narrated by: Sean Tivenan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • There is an unnamed feeling that haunts most men. It's a sense that there's more to life than the day-to-day existence we're living now. But the culture of this world ambition and greed and fear....

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    • Break Free from the Culture Hell-Bent on Holding You Back
    • By: Justin J. Camp
    • Narrated by: Sean Tivenan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Invention is an invitation to join a band of renegades and revolutionaries, change-makers and troublemakers - men who won't be daunted, because they know there is more. It's a guide for living, finally, with depth and purpose....

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    • An Unexpected Search for Meaning, Purpose and Discovery
    • By: Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-24
    • Language: English
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    • Revised and Updated Second Edition Life is all about Surviving the Lessons and Growing from Them. Shot at, arrested, threatened and endangered - ...

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    • How Colonialism Complicated Food Scarcity and Invention During World War II
    • By: Jolin Chan, Tori Borges
    • Narrated by: Justin Sewall
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Entering World War II, America was emerging as a world power. Their geographic isolation from World War I allowed them to recover and prosper in the interwar era, and food invention during the Depression carried into World War II....

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