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The Bed of Procrustes
- Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects.
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Better Read than Listened to
- By Paul Maconochie on 16-11-2019
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The Bed of Procrustes
- Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Series: Incerto
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-12-2010
- Language: English
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How to Win an Argument
- An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion
- By: Marcus Tullius Cicero, James May
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct - and often failing as a result - we'd win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of verbal persuasion, or rhetoric.
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Surprisingly as relevant now as ever
- By Kevin M. on 05-02-2020
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How to Win an Argument
- An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 27-09-2016
- Language: English
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The Identity Trap
- A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
- By: Yascha Mounk
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minorities has transformed into an obsession with group identity in all its forms. A new ideology - which Yascha Mounk terms the 'identity synthesis' - seeks to put each citizen's matrix of identities at the heart of social, cultural and political life. This, he argues, is The Identity Trap. Mounk traces the intellectual origin of these ideas. He tells the story of how they were able to win tremendous power over the past decade.
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An eloquent and deeply considered critique of a disturbing contemporary trend
- By Anonymous User on 10-10-2023
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The Identity Trap
- A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-09-2023
- Language: English
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Philosophy and Life
- Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live
- By: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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From Stoics to existentialists, in philosophy and literature, discussion of the philosophy of life—of love and death, of courage, fortitude and wisdom—challenges us all to think about what kinds of life are truly worth living. In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about this great question, A. C. Grayling explores with clarity and depth the ideas that each of us must use in answering it for ourselves.
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Philosophy and Life
- Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-04-2023
- Language: English
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
- By: Charlie Mackesy
- Narrated by: Charlie Mackesy
- Length: 58 mins
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Experience the world of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together in sometimes difficult terrain, sharing their greatest fears and biggest discoveries about vulnerability, kindness, hope, friendship and love.
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Simply beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 30-03-2021
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
- Narrated by: Charlie Mackesy
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 12-11-2020
- Language: English
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Think with Pinker
- How to Be a Better Critical Thinker
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Steven Pinker, Various, Tim Harford, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Cognitive scientist Professor Steven Pinker has spent his life thinking about thinking, and now he wants us to join him. With the aid of his critical thinking toolkit, he hopes to help us make smarter choices, become more rational, gain a greater understanding of the confused world we live in—and maybe even become better citizens. In this fascinating series, produced in partnership with the Open University, he examines the different ways the human brain can be tripped up, from understanding probability to the difference between correlation and causation.
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Think with Pinker
- How to Be a Better Critical Thinker
- Narrated by: Steven Pinker, Various, Tim Harford, Bill Gates, Hannah Fry, Daniel Kahneman, Siddartha Mukherjee, Elizabeth Loftus
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 21-07-2022
- Language: English
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Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
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If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous - not just in the West but worldwide. Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent value system that many of us embrace without even realising it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress.
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The last chapters are the best for those who’re already optimists
- By Luke Freeman on 26-05-2018
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Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 13-02-2018
- Language: English
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- How Male Privilege Hurts Women
- By: Kate Manne
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, bodily autonomy, knowledge, power, even care. In this urgent intervention, philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. In clear-sighted, powerful prose, she ranges widely across the culture - from the Kavanaugh hearings and 'Cat Person' to Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Warren - to show how the idea that a privileged man is tacitly deemed to be owed something is a pervasive problem.
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Dante's inferno of books
- By Anonymous User on 23-12-2021
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- How Male Privilege Hurts Women
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 11-08-2020
- Language: English
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- By: Christopher Ryan
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending - balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the "progress" defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease.
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Chris , you’ve changed my life
- By Anonymous User on 19-12-2019
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2019
- Language: English
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For the Good of the World
- Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible?
- By: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries, and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not impossible extreme, might be extinction? To answer these questions, A. C. Grayling considers the three most pressing challenges facing the world: climate change, technology, and justice.
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what can be done, will be done.
- By Justin on 24-07-2022
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For the Good of the World
- Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible?
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-03-2022
- Language: English
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I Am a Strange Loop
- By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
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One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop" - a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called "I". The "I" is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse.
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I Am a Strange Loop
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2018
- Language: English
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The Web of Meaning
- Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
- By: Jeremy Lent
- Narrated by: Adam Henderson
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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As our civilization careens towards a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview of disconnection, which tells us we are split between mind and body, separate from each other and at odds with the natural world, has passed its expiration date. Yet another world is possible. Award-winning author Jeremy Lent investigates humanity's age-old questions - who am I? why am I? how should I live? - from a fresh perspective.
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Shedding the western mind!
- By John Brisbin on 26-07-2021
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The Web of Meaning
- Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
- Narrated by: Adam Henderson
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2021
- Language: English
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The Prophets of Doom
- By: Neema Parvini
- Narrated by: Sebastian Abineri
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Linear and progressive views of history have dominated the popular imagination for the past seventy years in a worldview wedded to the inexorable rise of globalization and GDP growth at any cost. However, the end of the Cold War failed to produce the end of history as hoped, a fact brought home to many by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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AA is, to my mind, one the most level headed and well read thinkers of our time.
- By mirco on 28-04-2024
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The Prophets of Doom
- Narrated by: Sebastian Abineri
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2024
- Language: English
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Timenergy
- Why You Have No Time or Energy
- By: David McKerracher, Slavoj Žižek
- Narrated by: Nance
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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We normally don’t have any time, but when we finally do, we lack energy. On those rare occasions when we have energy outside of work, it is restless and difficult to harness towards meaningful goals. Starting from the realization that meaningful time is worthless without energy, the concept of “timenergy” points to something we all lack: large energy-infused blocks of repeatable time throughout the week.
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How to Be Free
- An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life
- By: Epictetus, Anthony Long - introduction, Anthony Long - translator
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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Born a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. In How to Be Free, A. A. Long - one of the world's leading authorities on Stoicism and a pioneer in its remarkable contemporary revival - provides a superb new edition of Epictetus's celebrated guide to the Stoic philosophy of life (the Encheiridion) along with a selection of related reflections in his Discourses.
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Mindset to be free
- By JC on 15-05-2024
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How to Be Free
- An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 09-10-2018
- Language: English
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The Rule of Law
- By: Tom Bingham
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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'The Rule of Law' is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foundation of modern states and civilizations has recently become even more talismanic than that of democracy, but what does it actually consist of? In this brilliant audiobook, Britain's former senior law lord, and one of the world's most acute legal minds, examines what the idea actually means.
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The Rule of Law
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2024
- Language: English
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence urgently require rethinking.
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 24-08-2021
- Language: English
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Skin in the Game
- Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one's own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life.
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Didn't finish
- By Kindle Customer on 08-02-2019
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Skin in the Game
- Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Series: Incerto
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2018
- Language: English
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Unshrinking
- How to Fight Fatphobia
- By: Kate Manne
- Narrated by: Kate Manne
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not. Blending intimate stories with the analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue.
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Typically insightful and witty, unexpectedly personal
- By Jane Crawford on 07-05-2024
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Unshrinking
- How to Fight Fatphobia
- Narrated by: Kate Manne
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2024
- Language: English
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The Prince
- Penguin Classics
- By: George Bull - translator, Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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As a diplomat in turbulent 15th-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, made his name notorious and has remained controversial ever since. How can a leader be strong and decisive yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved?
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Fsscinating
- By Silvia Wittwer Malisano on 17-08-2021
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The Prince
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2019
- Language: English
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