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Mao's Last Dancer
- By: Li Cunxin
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the true story of how one moment in time, by the thinnest thread of a chance, changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond description. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One day he would be a friend to a president and first lady, movie stars, and the most influential people in America. One day he would become a star: Mao's last dancer, and the darling of the West.
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An extraordinary account of Li Cunxin's life
- By Nicole Tucker on 12-05-2020
- Mao's Last Dancer
- By: Li Cunxin
- Narrated by: Paul English
sensational
Reviewed: 19-09-2020
Brilliant read full of hope, courage and persistence highly recommend to any reader from any walk of life.

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The Way of the SEAL
- Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed
- By: Mark Divine, Allyson Edelhurtz Machate
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Ex-navy commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Blending the tactics he learned from America's elite forces with lessons from the Spartans, samurai, Apache scouts, and other great warrior traditions, Divine has distilled the fundamentals of success into eight powerful principles that will transform you into the leader you always knew you could be. Learn to think like a SEAL, and take charge of your destiny at work, home and in life.
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Holistic Training
- By Sam on 02-11-2016
- The Way of the SEAL
- Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed
- By: Mark Divine, Allyson Edelhurtz Machate
- Narrated by: John Pruden
solid advice
Reviewed: 18-09-2019
loved it, it's got some solid advice in it. very practical but also very much useful
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
- By: Mark Manson
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mind-set that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.
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good basic psychology in everyday words
- By jaise on 18-03-2019
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
- By: Mark Manson
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
A true gem
Reviewed: 09-06-2019
very honest, very sobering, very on point - an absolute GEM! Very highly recommend this book. I will be buying copies for my friends
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The Tactical Guide to Women
- How Men Can Manage Risk in Dating and Marriage
- By: Shawn Smith
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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For men, love is a high-stakes gamble. The right woman can be the best part of a man's life, and the wrong one can lead to personal and financial ruin. In today's climate, no man should venture into romance without a reliable risk-management strategy. The Tactical Guide to Women delivers a solid plan for allowing the right women into your life, and keeping the wrong ones at a safe distance. This is not another book about getting laid. This book is about not getting screwed.
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Causes introspection
- By Amazon Customer on 13-12-2020
- The Tactical Guide to Women
- How Men Can Manage Risk in Dating and Marriage
- By: Shawn Smith
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
A Genuine Gem containing great advice for men
Reviewed: 27-09-2018
great book which provides some real great advice. I have applied the advice and it's already changing my life. This book probably summaries the best fundamental advice out there for getting the girl of your dreams who will truly make you happy.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
- By: Stephen R. Covey
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Covey
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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Stephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its 15th year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new foreword and afterword written by Covey that explore whether the 7 Habits are still relevant and answer some of the most common questions he has received over the past 15 years.
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Timeless Book
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-2017
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
- By: Stephen R. Covey
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Covey
powerful life changing book
Reviewed: 08-10-2016
An essential book to read if you wish to thrive in this ever more competitive world.
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Animal Farm
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard where the animals decide to seize the farmer's land and create a co-operative that reaps the benefits of their combined labours. However, as with all great political plans, some animals see a bigger share of the rewards than others and the animals start to question their supposed utopia.
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A Classic!!
- By Anonymous User on 26-05-2020
- Animal Farm
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
a classic!
Reviewed: 14-08-2016
Animal farm is a classic tale of failed revolution where those leading the revolution, increasingly becoming fearful for their own safety justify growing withdrawal and distance from the populace they claim to represent. With time, standards of living fall worse after the revolution than they were before revolution as the intellectual vanguard becomes a dictating force only concerned with feathering their own nest. The ultimate less the corrupting influence of power. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
- By: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Considering the role of justice in our society and our lives, Michael Sandel reveals how an understanding of philosophy can help to make sense of politics, religion, morality - and our own convictions. Breaking down hotly contested issues - from abortion, euthanasia, and same-sex marriage to patriotism, dissent, and affirmative action - Sandel shows how the biggest questions in our civic life can be broken down and illuminated through reasoned debate.
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Methodical, fair and illuminating
- By Amazon Customer on 02-12-2017
- Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
- By: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
Outstanding!
Reviewed: 07-08-2016
This book examines the various ways of debating justice and ultimately concludes that of the three ways; the virtue approach to justice is the superior form and the approach most needed in our times of a politics devoid of meaning, principle and purpose.
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Ready Player One
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place.
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Reindeer Flotilla Setec Astronomy
- By Nicholas Hallam on 03-09-2017
- Ready Player One
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
brilliant tale of a likely VR future!
Reviewed: 31-07-2016
fantastic read. highly entertaining but also an important snapshot into our future considering the intense interest with pokemon go!
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What Money Can't Buy
- The Moral Limits of Markets
- By: Michael J Sandel
- Narrated by: Michael J Sandel
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Michael Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In What Money Can't Buy, Sandel examines one of the biggest ethical questions of our time and provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honour and money cannot buy?
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Excellent all-round
- By Gavin Smith on 14-04-2019
- What Money Can't Buy
- The Moral Limits of Markets
- By: Michael J Sandel
- Narrated by: Michael J Sandel
Very important book in our age of market dominance
Reviewed: 24-07-2016
I very convincing argument is put forward by Sandel that markets ultimately change the nature of the goods exchanged thereby changing meaning and actually degrading some long held norms like civic virtues. This is of great concern as Sandel maps the increasing pervasiveness of market thinking and market fundamentalism in society. What makes the situation worse is that new market intiaitves are usually debated on the grounds of fairness and whether free choice will really be free. Sandel warns that this is not enough and that we must not shy away from actually assessing the moral worthiness of the new intiaitve and it's only after deliberating over these matters that we can determine whether a market should exist or whether something may be corrupted as a result and therefore left to be regulated by non market norms. As Sandel rightly observes "shrinking from these questions does not leave them undecided. it simply means that markets will decide them for us....The era of market triumphalism has coincided with a time when public discourse has been largely empty or moral and spiritual substance. Our only hope of keeping markets in their place is to deliberate openly and publicly about the meaning of the goods and social practises we prize."
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PostCapitalism
- A Guide to Our Future
- By: Paul Mason
- Narrated by: Paul Mason
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, PostCapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big, so profound, that this time capitalism itself has reached its limits.
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Needs PDF material
- By ANREW T CHURCH on 12-06-2017
- PostCapitalism
- A Guide to Our Future
- By: Paul Mason
- Narrated by: Paul Mason
Must read for anyone making sense of our future!
Reviewed: 17-07-2016
A highly orginal and important contribution to the literature on our future, how bleak the situation is, and the possibilities of charting a more promising course. The author is a realist idealist. A most fascinating, enjoyable and important read!
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