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Disobedient Bodies
- By: Emma Dabiri
- Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and commercially entangled, imposed upon us by oppressive systems and further strengthened by our conditioned self-loathing. This book encourages unruliness, exploring the ways in which we can rebel against and subvert the current system.
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Depth of thought personal reflection and research
- By John Allldis on 08-05-2024
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Disobedient Bodies
- Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-10-2023
- Language: English
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Imagination
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways. Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives on imagination, the author shows how this facility, while potentially distorting, both frees us from immediate reality and enriches our sense of it, making possible our experience of a meaningful world.
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Imagination
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 26-10-2023
- Language: English
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Nonconformity
- Writing on Writing
- By: Nelson Algren
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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“You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich”, writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: “A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: “Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder.” In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer’s relation to society....
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Nonconformity
- Writing on Writing
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2019
- Language: English
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Aesthetics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Bence Nanay
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Bence Nanay introduces the field of aesthetics, considering both Western and non-Western aesthetic traditions and exploring why it is sometimes misunderstood or considered to be too elitist - by artists, musicians, and even philosophers. As Nanay shows, so-called "high art" has no more claims on aesthetics than sitcoms, tattoos, or punk rock.
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Gets better later in the book
- By Arty on 13-06-2023
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Aesthetics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-05-2020
- Language: English
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The Timeless Wisdom of Epictetus: Philosophy for Modern Life
- By: Epictetus Arrian, Andrew Weston
- Narrated by: Andrew Weston
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Get ready to immerse yourself in the enduring power of Epictetus’ Stoic philosophy, brought to life by the strong, masculine voice of a rugged outdoors philosopher, also known as "the rucking philosopher." This audiobook isn’t just a recitation—it’s a bold journey into the timeless lessons of resilience, inner strength, and true freedom.
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The Timeless Wisdom of Epictetus: Philosophy for Modern Life
- Narrated by: Andrew Weston
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 22-04-2025
- Language: English
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Humour
- By: Terry Eagleton
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humor and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humor subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit?
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Humour
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 14-05-2019
- Language: English
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Home Matters
- How Our Homes Shape Us, and We Shape Them
- By: Penny Wincer
- Narrated by: Penny Wincer
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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As an interiors photographer, Penny Wincer found that walking through a stranger’s home, listening to them explaining the history of the space, and the meaning of precious objects, was one of most joyful aspects of her work. And in Home Matters Penny does exactly that, taking us through the houses of 13 artists, designers and writers, inspiring us to reflect on how we want our own homes to feel.
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Home Matters
- How Our Homes Shape Us, and We Shape Them
- Narrated by: Penny Wincer
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 05-12-2024
- Language: English
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Burger
- Object Lessons
- By: Carol J. Adams
- Narrated by: Noe Nishizawa
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal burger that can feed the world, the burger’s identity has become as malleable as that patty of protein itself, before it is thrown on a grill. Carol Adams’s Burger is a fast-paced and eclectic exploration of the history, business, cultural dynamics, and gender politics of the ordinary hamburger.
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Burger
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Noe Nishizawa
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-10-2025
- Language: English
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The Art of Fiction
- By: Henry James, Walter Besant
- Narrated by: ChasMandala
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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Fiction is an Art in every way, worthy to be called the sister and the equal of the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, Music, and Poetry; that is to say, her field is as boundless, her possibilities as vast, her excellences as worthy of admiration, as may be claimed for any of her sister Arts.
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The Art of Fiction
- Narrated by: ChasMandala
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 23-09-2021
- Language: English
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Material: Making and the Art of Transformation
- By: Nick Kary
- Narrated by: Nick Kary
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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In Material, Kary takes listeners along with him to visit some of the places where modern artisans are preserving, and in some cases passing on, the old craft skills. His vivid descriptions and eye for detail make this book a rich and delightful listen, and the natural and cultural history he imparts along the way provides an important context for understanding our own past and the roots of our industrial society. Personal, engaging, and filled with memorable people, landscapes, and scenes, Material is a rich celebration of what it means to imagine and create.
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Material: Making and the Art of Transformation
- Narrated by: Nick Kary
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2020
- Language: English
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What Is Art?
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Stephane Cornicard
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Leo Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These culminated in What Is Art?, published in 1898. Although Tolstoy perceived the question of art to be a religious one, he considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire, and even his own novels are condemned in the course of Tolstoy's impassioned and iconoclastic redefinition of art as a force for good; for the improvement of humankind.
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What Is Art?
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Stephane Cornicard
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-11-2022
- Language: English
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The Spaces That Make Us
- Why Design Is Broken and How We Can Create a Happier, Healthier World
- By: Danish Kurani
- Narrated by: Omar Maskati
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Create a better life by creating better design. Did you know that. . . . . . the arrangement of your living room could improve your relationship with your partner? . . . the layout of your child's classroom affects their grades and test scores? . . . the design of your hospital room influences...
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The Spaces That Make Us
- Why Design Is Broken and How We Can Create a Happier, Healthier World
- Narrated by: Omar Maskati
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-02-2026
- Language: English
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Written in Water
- The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
- By: Rochelle Gurstein
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
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Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore and establish a solid foundation for the classic in the history of taste. To her surprise, that history instead revealed repeated episodes of soaring and falling reputations, rediscoveries of long-forgotten artists, and radical shifts in the canon, all of which went so completely against common knowledge that it was hard to believe it was true.
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Written in Water
- The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 30-07-2024
- Language: English
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Hotel
- Object Lessons
- By: Joanna Walsh
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as alternatives to home. Luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy…hotels are where our desires go on holiday, but also places where our desires are shaped by the hard realities of the marketplace. Part memoir and part meditation, this book visits a series of rooms, suites, hallways, and lobbies—the spaces and things that make up these modern sites of gathering and alienation, hotels.
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Hotel
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 29-05-2025
- Language: English
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Glasses
- Object Lessons
- By: Adam Geczy
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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Glasses alter, enhance, and shield the way that we view the world, and the way the world sees us. At times they are the main identifiers in a face (think John Lennon), and they signify extremes from nerdy and brainy to cool and sleazy. Adam Geczy explores this most pervasive and accessible accessory and shows that it is both a conduit to and a barrier between ourselves and the world outside.
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Glasses
- Object Lessons
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2026
- Language: English
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Concrete
- Object Lessons
- By: Dr. Stephen Parnell
- Length: 3 hrs
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From the personal, intimate scale of jewelry to the monumental scale of Brutalist architecture, Parnell explores the personality of concrete and how it is embedded and embodied in everyday and familiar objects. He revels in concrete's ambiguity and contradictory qualities, from its sensitivity to the tiniest imprint to its immense compressive strength in hydroelectric dams, and traces how concrete is both the ultimate unaesthetic material as well as the quintessential building block of modernity.
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Concrete
- Object Lessons
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 30-07-2026
- Language: English
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Bookshelf
- Object Lessons
- By: Lydia Pyne
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence.
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Bookshelf
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 29-05-2025
- Language: English
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Survival of the Beautiful
- Art, Science, and Evolution
- By: David Rothenberg
- Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin's observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher and musician David Rothenberg probes why animals, humans included, have innate appreciation for beauty - and why nature is, indeed, beautiful.
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Survival of the Beautiful
- Art, Science, and Evolution
- Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 09-03-2013
- Language: English
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Incompletos
- Filosofía para un pensamiento elegante
- By: José Carlos Ruiz
- Narrated by: Pablo Martínez Gugel
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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La elegancia, en su etimología, está emparentada con la elección ( eligĕre), de tal manera que una persona elegante, entre otras cosas, es aquella que sabe elegir. El pensamiento elegante moldea a un sujeto que no lucha por mostrarse distinto entre la multitud sino que se eleva hacia una...
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Incompletos
- Filosofía para un pensamiento elegante
- Narrated by: Pablo Martínez Gugel
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2023
- Language: Spanish
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Strange Tools
- Art and Human Nature
- By: Alva Noë
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.
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Strange Tools
- Art and Human Nature
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 22-12-2015
- Language: English
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