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Starry Messenger : Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Tyson, Neil deGrasseMacmillan Audio 2022 Unabridged"This engaging, conversational book begs to be read aloud, and who better than its author?... Tyson's warmth and erudition make him a superb narrator of this excellent, thought-pro...
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There Is Nothing For You Here : Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Hill, FionaHarperAudio 2021 Unabridged""This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up."—Timothy Snyder, New York Times be...
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The Disordered Cosmos : A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Prescod-Weinstein, ChandaHachette Audio 2021 UnabridgedFrom a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science. A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O...
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Be Water, My Friend : The Teachings of Bruce Lee
Lee, ShannonMacmillan Audio 2020 UnabridgedThis program is read by the author Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies—demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal...
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Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature
Breyer, Daniel; The Great CoursesThe Great Courses 2019 UnabridgedHardly a day goes by that we don't hear about someone committing a violent, reprehensible, even evil, act. And each time it happens, before we know anything about the circumstances...
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The Art of War
Tzu, SunDreamscape Media, LLC 2016The Art of War dates back to the 5th century BC, and is an ancient Chinese military handbook. Attributed to the intelligent military strategist Sun Tzu, the title of the work is "M...
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The Dream of Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Gottlieb, AnthonyBlackstone Audio 2016The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought.Western philosophy is now two-and-a-half millennia old, but much of it came in just two st...
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Mastery of Life : The Self-Help Classics of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson, Ralph WaldoGildan Audio 2014The great writings of American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) are not some distant ponderings on life—they are works of the highest practicality, int...
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Leviathan : or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil
Hobbes, ThomasBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2011The leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace, and security to be attained? Hobbes' answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviath...
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The Story of Philosophy : The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
Durant, WillBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2010The product of eleven years of research, The Story of Philosophy is an endlessly inspiring and instructive chronicle of the world's greatest thinkers, from Socrates to Santayana. W...
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Ecce Homo : How One Becomes What One Is
Nietzsche, FriedrichBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2009Ecce Homo, which is Latin for "behold the man," is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philoso...
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God Is Not Great : How Religion Poisons Everything
Hitchens, ChristopherHachette Audio 2007 UnabridgedWhether you're a lifelong believer, a devout atheist, or someone who remains uncertain about the role of religion in our lives, this insightful manifesto will engage you with its p...
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Objectivism : The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Peikoff, LeonardBlackstone Publishing 2007 UnabridgedThis brilliantly conceived and well-organized book is based on a lecture course given by Dr. Leonard Peikoff in 1976, prepared with the help of Ayn Rand and entitled "The Philosop...
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Confucius, Lao Tzu, and Chinese Philosophy
Sartwell, Prof. CrispinBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2006China's two greatest philosophers, Confucius and Lao Tzu, were intensely interested in how we should live and how a good society is governed. The central concepts of Confucianism a...
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Simone de Beauvoir
McWhorter, Prof. LadelleBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2006Simone de Beauvoir stands as a towering figure in the twentieth century's flowering of thought among women. There are probably more women philosophers alive today than in all of p...
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Plato : Greece (ca. 430-350 B.C.)
Lang, Prof. BerelBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2006Plato was the first great philosopher of the West to organize and record the issues and questions that define philosophy. A student of Socrates, Plato preserved the teachings of hi...
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Friedrich Nietzsche : Germany (1844-1900)
Schacht, Prof. RichardBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2006Near the end of the nineteenth century, Friedrich Nietzsche boldly announced that God is dead. There are no absolute truths, he said; the only reality is this world of life and dea...
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The Dream of Reason
Gottlieb, AnthonyBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2013In this landmark study of Western thought, Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of our great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdo...