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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- By: John Locke
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 30 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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John Locke and his works - particularly An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - are regularly and rightly presented as foundations for the Age of Enlightenment. His primary epistemological message - that the mind at birth is a blank sheet waiting to be filled by the experiences of the senses - complemented his primary political message: that human beings are free and equal and have the right to envision, create and direct the governments that rule them and the societies within which they live.
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Outstanding narration
- By s l bassett on 02-10-18
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 30 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-07-18
- Language: English
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Violence and the Sacred
- By: René Girard
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy, and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.
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An Important Book - Glad I could listen!
- By Paul on 09-09-25
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Violence and the Sacred
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 21-05-24
- Language: English
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12 Rules for Life
- An Antidote to Chaos
- By: Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge - introduction M.D., Ethan Van Sciver
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan B Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers...
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12 Rules for Life
- An Antidote to Chaos
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
- Series: 12 Rules for Life
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-01-18
- Language: English
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Natural Order
- God's Design for Society
- Narrated by: Harvey Wallmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 17-04-26
- Language: English
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Freedom Without Blood
- Religion, Law, and Victims in Modern Society
- By: Ivan Valle
- Narrated by: Jarrod M Weaver
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Freedom Without Blood is a rigorous and compassionate examination of one of the most uncomfortable contradictions in modern law: the protection of religious freedom when it collides with physical harm. Drawing on U.S. constitutional principles, Supreme Court cases, and international legal standards, Ivan Valle explores a simple but urgent question: Can any belief justify the creation of a victim? This book does not attack faith. It defends a boundary.
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Freedom Without Blood
- Religion, Law, and Victims in Modern Society
- Narrated by: Jarrod M Weaver
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 17-04-26
- Language: English
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The Tiny Bee That Hovers at the Center of the World
- By: David Searcy
- Narrated by: David Searcy
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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An ethereal meditation on longing, loss, and time, sweeping from the highways of Texas to the canals of Mars—by the acclaimed essayist and author of Shame and Wonder David Searcy’s writing is enchanting and peculiar, obsessed with plumbing the mysteries and wonders of our everyday world...
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The Tiny Bee That Hovers at the Center of the World
- Narrated by: David Searcy
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-07-21
- Language: English
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Maintenance of Everything, Part One
- Maintenance: Of Everything, Book 1
- By: Stewart Brand
- Narrated by: Rob Grannis
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going. Yet it’s also easy to shirk or defer—until the thing breaks, the system falters, and everything stops. The apparent paradox is profound: Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional. The first in a multi-volume work, Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One offers a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance. The book begins with a dramatic contest of maintenance styles under life-critical conditions:
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Great read but feels like half a book
- By Roy Klein on 15-04-26
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Maintenance of Everything, Part One
- Maintenance: Of Everything, Book 1
- Narrated by: Rob Grannis
- Series: Maintenance: Of Everything, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 20-01-26
- Language: English
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Death in a Shallow Pond
- A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need
- By: David Edmonds
- Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Imagine this: You're walking past a shallow pond and spot a toddler thrashing around in the water, in obvious danger of drowning. You look around for her parents, but nobody is there. You're the only person who can save her and you must act immediately. But as you approach the pond you remember that you're wearing your most expensive shoes. Wading into the water will ruin them—and might make you late for a meeting. Should you let the child drown?
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Engaging philosophical biography of EA
- By Amazon Customer on 08-03-26
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Death in a Shallow Pond
- A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need
- Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 23-09-25
- 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 - Translator
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance30
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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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Engaging, informative, and relevant
- By Callum MORRISON on 23-08-18
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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: 27-09-16
- Language: English
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The Infinite Alphabet
- And the Laws of Knowledge
- By: César A. Hidalgo
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The celebrated scientist and author of Why Information Grows reveals how knowledge moves, drives progress and shapes the world We all understand that knowledge shapes the fate of business and the growth of nations, but few of us are aware of the principles that govern...
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The Infinite Alphabet
- And the Laws of Knowledge
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Against Progress
- By: Slavoj Žižek
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In thirteen iconoclastic essays, Slavoj Žižek disrupts the death-grip that neoliberalists, Trumpian populists, toxic self-improvement industries and accelerationists alike have established on the idea of progress. Anatomizing what is lost when opponents of the future are allowed to define it, Žižek ruthlessly exposes what different visions of progress exclude or sacrifice and the dynamics of desire, denial and disavowal at work in Hollywood blockbusters, Buddhist economics, decolonization movements and other engines of vision.
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Against Progress
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Infectious Generosity
- The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
- By: Chris Anderson
- Narrated by: Chris Anderson
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance16
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As head of TED for the past 20 years, Chris Anderson has had a ringside view of the world's most significant thinkers sharing their boldest ideas across every imaginable discipline. Yet there's a single theme that stands out in his mind as the essential connecting thread: generosity. It may seem simple, but generosity has played a key role in building the tools, knowledge, and institutions that have allowed civilisation to flourish. Now, in our unsettled modern world, beset by disruption and division, Anderson believes our collective future depends on reconnecting to this vital human trait.
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The dreadful AI generated narration spoiled the genius of the content.
- By Fiona on 04-04-24
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Infectious Generosity
- The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
- Narrated by: Chris Anderson
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-01-24
- Language: English
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Uncivilised
- By: Subhadra Das
- Narrated by: Subhadra Das
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall18
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Performance17
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Except most of the ideas that form Western Civilisation are just that—ideas. Taking cues from Greek philosophy and honed in the Enlightenment, certain notions about humanity and human society grew into the tenets we live by, and we haven't questioned them a great deal since. But isn't it time we asked who really benefits from the values at the core of our society? How much truth lies in a science that conjured up 'race'? Who do laws and nations really protect? Why does it feel like time is money? What even is 'art'?
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Fascinating Read
- By Anonymous on 07-12-25
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Uncivilised
- Narrated by: Subhadra Das
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
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Bad Education
- Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them
- By: Matt Goodwin
- Narrated by: Matt Goodwin
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance22
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Our universities are broken. Established as sanctuaries of truth and higher learning, they are now decaying institutions that are failing a generation of young people. Consumed by funding and admissions crises, dominated by dogma and governed by self-interest, their founding principles have been corrupted. This explosive book shows us why, and what we must do to fix them.
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Misrepresents pro-peace campaigners as antisemitic
- By StuP on 03-03-25
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Bad Education
- Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them
- Narrated by: Matt Goodwin
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 06-02-25
- Language: English
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The Second Mountain
- The Quest for a Moral Life
- By: David Brooks
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance79
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Secnd Mountain, written by David Brooks, read by Arthur Morey. Are you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high...
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It's a good message well delivered but...
- By John Sharpe on 17-02-22
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The Second Mountain
- The Quest for a Moral Life
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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How to Think Like a Philosopher
- Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking
- By: Julian Baggini
- Narrated by: Julian Baggini
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Drawing on decades of work in philosophy including a huge range of interviews with contemporary philosophers, Julian Baggini sets out how philosophical thought can promote incisive thinking. Introducing everyday examples and contemporary political concerns—from climate change to implicit bias—How to Think Like a Philosopher is a revelatory exploration of the techniques, methods and principles that guide philosophy, and how they can be applied to our own lives.
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Excellent
- By runabout on 31-10-24
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How to Think Like a Philosopher
- Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking
- Narrated by: Julian Baggini
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 20-04-23
- Language: English
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
- By: Judith Butler
- Narrated by: Judith Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance51
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Global networks have formed "anti-gender ideology movements" dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous threat to families, local cultures, civilization -- and even "man" himself. But what, exactly, is so scary about gender? In this vital, courageous book, Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose influential work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, carefully examines how "gender" has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and transexclusionary feminists.
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Just incredible!
- By Yashes on 23-03-24
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
- Narrated by: Judith Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 19-03-24
- Language: English
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How to Be a Conservative
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance14
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Roger Scruton’s How to be a Conservative presents the case for modern conservatism not in the terms of an elegy but rather as a practical example of how to live as a conservative despite the pressures to live otherwise. As he writes, the book ‘is not about what we have lost, but about what we have retained, and how to hold on to it’. In this witty and frank account, Scruton draws on his years of experience as a counter-cultural presence in public life.
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A necessary reminder of true conservatism
- By Tone on 31-08-23
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How to Be a Conservative
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 20-01-22
- Language: English
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Objectivism
- The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
- By: Leonard Peikoff
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance33
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This brilliantly conceived book is based on a lecture course given by Dr. Leonard Peikoff in 1976 entitled, "The Philosophy of Objectivism". The lectures were attended by Ayn Rand, who helped prepare them and who also joined Peikoff in answering questions.
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Compulsory listening for today's political leaders
- By Lourens Janse van Rensburg on 18-10-11
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Objectivism
- The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-11-04
- Language: English
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The Sociological Imagination
- By: C. Wright Mills
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, and historical dimensions of our lives. The sociological imagination Mills calls for is a sociological vision, a way of looking at the world that can see links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues.
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No storyline and dry as stcks
- By Kazasid on 08-02-22
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The Sociological Imagination
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 27-02-21
- Language: English
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