Bestsellers
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Shop Class as Soulcraft
- An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- By: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrated by: Max Bloomquist
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall538
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Performance457
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Story456
A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands “This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving.” —Richard Sennett...
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Hands and brain: a matching set
- By Amazon Customer on 01-07-20
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In Praise of Shadows
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall293
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Performance246
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Story244
In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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How to listen
- By Anonymous on 03-25-18
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The Birth of Tragedy
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: John van Stan
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the...
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Why the bad accent?
- By Ray Townsend on 07-12-24
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Beauty
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall161
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Performance134
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Story134
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores...
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Introduction to Beauty
- By Adam Shields on 05-03-19
By: Roger Scruton
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Prometheism
- By: Jason Reza Jorjani
- Narrated by: Daniel Natal
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance34
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Story34
This is a declaration of war. In the name of our creator, we declare a revolutionary war against both the gods and those titans who were gods before them! In the name of our liberator, we declare a revolutionary war against fatalism and every other form of tyranny....
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Overconfident
- By Ryan Norberg on 12-12-25
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
- By: Edmund Burke
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance26
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Story25
In A Philosophical Enquiry, Edmund Burke sets out to define the nature of beauty and sublimity, and establish an objective criterion for discussing aesthetics....
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Ought to be read more
- By Easy Rhino on 06-19-21
By: Edmund Burke
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Shop Class as Soulcraft
- An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- By: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrated by: Max Bloomquist
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall538
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Performance457
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Story456
A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands “This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving.” —Richard Sennett...
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Hands and brain: a matching set
- By Amazon Customer on 01-07-20
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In Praise of Shadows
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall293
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Performance246
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Story244
In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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How to listen
- By Anonymous on 03-25-18
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The Birth of Tragedy
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: John van Stan
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the...
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Why the bad accent?
- By Ray Townsend on 07-12-24
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Beauty
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall161
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Performance134
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Story134
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores...
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Introduction to Beauty
- By Adam Shields on 05-03-19
By: Roger Scruton
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Prometheism
- By: Jason Reza Jorjani
- Narrated by: Daniel Natal
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance34
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Story34
This is a declaration of war. In the name of our creator, we declare a revolutionary war against both the gods and those titans who were gods before them! In the name of our liberator, we declare a revolutionary war against fatalism and every other form of tyranny....
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Overconfident
- By Ryan Norberg on 12-12-25
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
- By: Edmund Burke
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance26
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Story25
In A Philosophical Enquiry, Edmund Burke sets out to define the nature of beauty and sublimity, and establish an objective criterion for discussing aesthetics....
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Ought to be read more
- By Easy Rhino on 06-19-21
By: Edmund Burke
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The Eternal Embrace of Beauty
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- By: John O'Donohue
- Narrated by: John O'Donohue
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
A Sounds True Audio Original: Intimate, life-changing programs with the leading voices in spirituality, personal growth, and healing. “The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in...
By: John O'Donohue
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The Aesthetic Brain
- How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
- By: Anjan Chatterjee
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance70
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Story68
The Aesthetic Brain takes the listener on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art....
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Disappointing
- By Clara on 12-22-15
By: Anjan Chatterjee
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This Beauty
- A Philosophy of Being Alive
- By: Nick Riggle
- Narrated by: Nick Riggle
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
An acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living....
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Very hard for me to follow the book
- By PRATEEK JAIN on 04-28-23
By: Nick Riggle
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Blueprints
- How Mathematics Shapes Creativity
- By: Marcus du Sautoy
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the arts When Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and...
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Really fun though hard without seeing images
- By magbos on 02-05-26
By: Marcus du Sautoy
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Lost in Thought
- The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
- By: Zena Hitz
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance88
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Story85
In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writes, few experiences are so...
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Wow!!!
- By A. Edwards on 09-18-21
By: Zena Hitz
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The Architecture of Happiness
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall459
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Performance374
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Story375
The Architecture of Happiness is a dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations....
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Many elegant words used for a simple topic.
- By Spirit on 08-15-17
By: Alain de Botton
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
- A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
- By: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt - introduction
- Narrated by: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance20
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Story19
A compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion, and spectacle – featuring an introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Donna Tartt In Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, J. F. Martel offers a compelling and incisive meditation on...
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Phenomenal
- By Anonymous on 12-02-25
By: J.F. Martel, and others
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Ecce Homo
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Ellis Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Ecce Homo, subtitled How One Becomes What One Is, is the final original book written by Friedrich Nietzsche before he succumbed to the insanity which lasted until his death in 1900....
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Glamour
- A World Problem
- By: Alice A. Bailey, Alice Bailey
- Narrated by: Lucis Publishing Companies
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Story2
The idea that a small group of dedicated aspirants could work together to help dissipate the heavy enshrouding glamours which oppress humanity and deflect the light of truth, was initially quite a startling one....
By: Alice A. Bailey, and others
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Chromophobia
- Focus on Contemporary Issues
- By: David Batchelor
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse—a fear of corruption or contamination through color—lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought.
By: David Batchelor
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Counsels and Maxims
- By: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrated by: Larry G. Jones
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Counsels and Maxims is a classic work by noted German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. His work has influenced some of the modern world's greatest thinkers, including Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erwin Schrödinger....
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Narrator = Richard Dreyfuss with a stuffy nose.
- By Munin on 07-04-21
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The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall178
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Performance158
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Story158
One of Nietzsche’s earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a remarkable source of inspiration....
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The Apollonian vs The Dionysian
- By JCW on 02-05-18
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Shopping Mall
- Object Lessons
- By: Matthew Newton
- Narrated by: Mack Gordon
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Part memoir and part study of modern life, Shopping Mall examines the modern mythology of the shopping mall and the place it holds in our shared cultural history.
By: Matthew Newton
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Barthes
- By: Ribière Mireille
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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This comprehensive presentation of Roland Barthes’s work tracks his intellectual evolution, with particular emphasis on those areas where his ...
By: Ribière Mireille
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Postmodernism
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Christopher Butler
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance35
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Story35
Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum...
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Misleading Title
- By nicholas on 01-06-23
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On Quality
- An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
- By: Robert M. Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Abby Craden
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance46
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Story45
Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought: “Quality” “The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is...
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Interesting trip inside an obsessed mind.
- By Tom on 05-03-22
By: Robert M. Pirsig, and others
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
- By: Wassily Kandinsky
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance2
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Featuring an enlightening introduction by the book's translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, providing generational and cultural context for Kandinsky and his work, Concerning the Spiritual in Art gives testimony to the mind and creative expression of Kandinsky and other artists of his generation....
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Ecce Homo
- How One Becomes What One Is
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Steven Van Doren
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall368
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Performance306
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Story304
Ecce homo, "behold the man", are the words Friedrich Nietzsche chose as the title for his literary self-portrait....
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Bombastic, Fantastic?
- By w22w on 01-24-10
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El elogio de la sombra [In Praise of Shadows]
- By: Junichirô Tanizaki
- Narrated by: Masumi Mutsuda
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
A través de la contemplación silenciosa del mundo que lo rodea, Tanizaki desvela el misterio de la sombra, que no es otro que la esencia misma de la belleza, con un estilo sencillo y ameno pero asombrosamente equilibrado, sereno y sutil....
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The Universe and the Teacup
- The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty
- By: K. C. Cole
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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From the acclaimed Los Angeles Times science writer, a wise, witty, and elegant study of how math provides practical solutions to everyday problems. Are the secrets of the universe written in words - or is it all about the digits? K. C. Cole follows up her paean to the power of physics...
By: K. C. Cole
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Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
- By: Leonard Koren
- Narrated by: Brian Richy
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance67
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Story65
An updated version of the seminal 1994 classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Nearly every book with "wabi" or "wabi sabi" in the title is based on the concepts first elucidated in this book. Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a...
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A fast classic I return to often
- By Jayson & Belegui on 03-19-23
By: Leonard Koren
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- By: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance44
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Story43
There is a cause, or a reason, behind everything that happens. This is the fundamental view behind the classical proposition the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which, in 1813, Schopenhauer chose as his subject for further examination in his doctoral dissertation On the Fourfold Root of the...
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I’ve enjoyed this program
- By M.Biblioswine on 04-23-20
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The Entanglement
- How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
- By: Alva Noe
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature. Life supplies art with its raw materials, but art, Noë argues, remakes life by...
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Wonderfully eyeopening book with a unique perspective!
- By Randa El Meleigy on 12-26-25
By: Alva Noe
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Framing the Invisible
- How We See and Understand Art
- By: Gita Joshi
- Narrated by: Sarah Kempton
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Art has the power to move us, to spark an unexplainable connection, or to leave us cold. We might focus on small details or take in the entire piece of art, searching for something familiar.
By: Gita Joshi