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Apropos of Nothing
- By: Woody Allen
- Narrated by: Woody Allen
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In this candid and hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. He revisits his entire 60-year-long career as a writer and director, from his classics Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Hannah and Her Sisters to his most recent films, including Midnight in Paris. He discusses his marriages, romances, and famous friendships, his jazz playing, and his books and plays. We learn about his demons, his mistakes, his successes, and those he loved, worked with, and learned from.
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What a real treat this book is
- By raz on 22-05-2020
- Apropos of Nothing
- By: Woody Allen
- Narrated by: Woody Allen
What a real treat this book is
Reviewed: 22-05-2020
Definitely Woody Allen is at its best performing his own autobiography. I’ve always enjoyed his jokes and sense of humor. This book is as cool as everything else he’s produced. Thanks Woody for shearing the awful story about what happened with Mia and really sorry to hear the craziness of the media. Reading this book I’ve laughed so much. Thank you !
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Thinking in Systems
- A Primer
- By: Donella H. Meadows
- Narrated by: Tia Rider Sorensen
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....
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Slow but worth your patience
- By David on 18-01-2019
- Thinking in Systems
- A Primer
- By: Donella H. Meadows
- Narrated by: Tia Rider Sorensen
A very important book
Reviewed: 17-05-2020
An absolute must for anyone regardless of what discipline or professional background you have. This book helped me understand why Adam Smith’s butchers interest and division of labour is essentially faulted. An excellent and illuminating read.
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The Rules of Backyard Cricket
- By: Jock Serong
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble. It is no surprise, then, that he becomes an Australian sporting star of the bad-boy variety - one of those men who's always got away with things and just keeps going...until the day we meet him, middle aged and in the boot of a car, and everything pointing towards a shallow grave.
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Not for the squeamish
- By Kirsty on 06-02-2020
- The Rules of Backyard Cricket
- By: Jock Serong
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
A very relevant and enjoyable book
Reviewed: 11-03-2020
Jock captures a lot of current issues like the wisdom of watching sports, how media works, youth corruption, challenges with growing up in single parent family to name a few. I like Jock writing and the way he articulates his story. The audio version is superbly performed as well.
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Midnight's Children
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
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This Audible production expertly brings to life Salman Rushdie’s postcolonial masterpiece Midnight’s Children, available for the first time unabridged in audio. Written in the magical-realist style that Rushdie is renowned for, Midnight’s Children follows Saleem Sinai - a child gifted with extraordinary powers after being born at the exact moment India becomes independent. The captivating events that unfold act as an allegory for India’s transition from colonialism to independence as Saleem finds himself 'handcuffed to history', with his fate entwined with that of his newly independent state.
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Beautifully written and performed
- By raz on 14-12-2019
- Midnight's Children
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
Beautifully written and performed
Reviewed: 14-12-2019
This book is profoundly poetic and paints a beautiful canvas of Indian society right before and after independence. Key historical events are presented in flow of interweaving fantasy and reality while convening it’s message in a symbolic way. Even if you can follow the plot. You’ll still get it in the end.
1 person found this helpful
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Terra Nullius
- By: Claire G. Coleman
- Narrated by: Mark Coles Smith, Tamala Shelton
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was running. The Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to have a nation of peace, and to bring the savages into line. Families are torn apart, reeducation is enforced. This rich land will provide for all.
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A slow start to a much needed story
- By Freddie Muleman on 06-05-2019
- Terra Nullius
- By: Claire G. Coleman
- Narrated by: Mark Coles Smith, Tamala Shelton
Great way to tell the story of Australia
Reviewed: 03-12-2019
How do you tell stories in the digital age. Terra Nullius is an great way on how to tell a young and in fact any modern audience what happened in Australia during 18th, 19th and beginning of 20th centuries. Humanity has come a long way since then. But how do you engage audiences with these type of historical topics? Terra Nullius is the answer.
1 person found this helpful
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.
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Amazing book
- By Toby on 28-06-2018
- The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
A very important book
Reviewed: 12-08-2019
Bought this book for my 13 year old daughter. This book is so well written with extremely clear and easy to understand examples of how and why science is important. The audible edition is great very well narrated so a real pleasure to listen to.
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From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History
- By: Kenneth J. Hammond, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Kenneth J. Hammond
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
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For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth. And for us as Westerners, it is essential to understand where China has been in order to anticipate its future. These 36 eye-opening lectures deliver a comprehensive political and historical overview of one of the most fascinating and complex countries in world history.You'll learn about the powerful dynasties that ruled China for centuries; the philosophical and religious foundations-particularly Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism-that have influenced every iteration of Chinese thought, and the larger-than-life personalities, from both inside and outside its borders, of those who have shaped China's history. As you listen to these lectures, you'll see how China's politics, economics, and art reflect the forces of its past.From the "Mandate of Heaven," a theory of social contract in place by 1500 B.C.E., 3,000 years before Western philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, to the development of agriculture and writing independent of outside influence to the technologically-advanced Han Dynasty during the time of the Roman Empire, this course takes you on a journey across ground that has been largely unexplored in the history courses most of us in the West have taken.In guiding you through the five millennia of China's history, Professor Hammond tells a fascinating story with an immense scope, a welcome reminder that China is no stranger to that stage and, indeed, has more often than not been the most extraordinary player on it.
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terrible
- By Anonymous User on 27-12-2019
A must course in Chinese History
Reviewed: 12-06-2019
Would start by saying that’s easy to jump to conclusions about China without the valuable background presented in this book. Also it’s worth noting that this great people and culture have been “hard done” in part by the Western colonial power and in part by their own internal divisions. This course will enlighten and elucidate all this.
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
- By: Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Narrated by: George Thomas, Robert DeRoeck, Aaron Silverbook
- Length: 49 hrs and 40 mins
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What does it actually mean to be rational? Not Hollywood-style "rational", where you forsake all human feeling to embrace Cold Hard Logic, but where you make good decisions, even when it's hard; where you reason well, even in the face of massive uncertainty; where you recognize and make full use of your fuzzy intuitions and emotions, rather than trying to discard them. In Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Eliezer Yudkowsky explains the science underlying human irrationality with a mix of fables, argumentative essays, and personal vignettes.
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Outstanding Book; Incomplete Audio
- By Luke on 02-03-2019
- Rationality: From AI to Zombies
- By: Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Narrated by: George Thomas, Robert DeRoeck, Aaron Silverbook
Very good introduction to Bayesian thinking
Reviewed: 17-02-2019
Yudkowsky explains very well what it means to be thinking in rational way. The book can be thought of as a starting guide on how to be more rational. I’ve enjoyed the thought provoking stories like the jester. I will refer to this book for years to come.
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
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Perhaps the most influential science book ever written, On the Origin of Species has continued to fascinate for more than a century after its initial publication. Its controversial theory that populations evolve and adapt through a process known as natural selection led to heated scientific, philosophical, and religious debate, revolutionizing every discipline in its wake. With its clear, concise, and surprisingly enjoyable prose, On the Origin of Species is both captivating and edifying.
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A book that transformed the way we think of the world
- By Amazon Customer on 01-06-2017
- On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
Beautiful writing
Reviewed: 26-11-2018
Loved this book considering the subject Darwin’s writing its a real treat. I put reading this book off for many years because I had preconceived ideas about it. I recommend this book to anyone it’s a real treat enjoy!
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Zorba the Greek
- By: Nikos Kazantzakis
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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A wonderful tale of a young man’s coming of age, Zorba the Greek has been a classic of world literature since it was first translated into English in 1952 and made into an unforgettable movie with Anthony Quinn. Zorba, an irrepressible, earthy hedonist, sweeps his young disciple along as he wines, dines, and loves his way through a life dedicated to fulfilling his copious appetites. Zorba is irresistible in this charming audio production by veteran narrator George Guidall.
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A mind blowing book
- By raz on 16-11-2018
- Zorba the Greek
- By: Nikos Kazantzakis
- Narrated by: George Guidall
A mind blowing book
Reviewed: 16-11-2018
Kazantzakis’ writing is charming his Zorba character impossible not to fall in love with. This book is truly a masterpiece a mind opening experience and a very thought provoking story. Love every single bit of it.