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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- By: John O'Donohue
- Narrated by: John O'Donohue
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue invites us to remember and to awaken the Beautiful....
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Captivated.
- By Jennie on 23-01-17
By: John O'Donohue
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Wabi Sabi
- Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
- By: Beth Kempton
- Narrated by: Beth Kempton
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom....
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Thoughtful book
- By Natalya on 31-03-20
By: Beth Kempton
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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....
By: Emma Dabiri
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Authenticity
- How Economics, Evolution and Technology Drive Us to Deceive—and How We Can Fight Back
- By: Alice Sherwood
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Our world is full of people and products that are not what they seem. We no longer know whether we are talking to a person or a machine. But we can fight back—and this award-winning book shows us how....
By: Alice Sherwood
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The Architecture of Happiness
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets we’re surrounded by....
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Was looking forward to it but…
- By Anna on 08-04-23
By: Alain de Botton
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In Praise of Shadows
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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outdated, racist and sexist views and comments.
- By Dylan E. on 26-11-18
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- By: John O'Donohue
- Narrated by: John O'Donohue
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue invites us to remember and to awaken the Beautiful....
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Captivated.
- By Jennie on 23-01-17
By: John O'Donohue
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Wabi Sabi
- Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
- By: Beth Kempton
- Narrated by: Beth Kempton
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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A whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom....
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Thoughtful book
- By Natalya on 31-03-20
By: Beth Kempton
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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....
By: Emma Dabiri
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Authenticity
- How Economics, Evolution and Technology Drive Us to Deceive—and How We Can Fight Back
- By: Alice Sherwood
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Our world is full of people and products that are not what they seem. We no longer know whether we are talking to a person or a machine. But we can fight back—and this award-winning book shows us how....
By: Alice Sherwood
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The Architecture of Happiness
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets we’re surrounded by....
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Was looking forward to it but…
- By Anna on 08-04-23
By: Alain de Botton
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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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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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outdated, racist and sexist views and comments.
- By Dylan E. on 26-11-18
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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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Personal, engaging, and filled with memorable people, landscapes, and scenes, Material is a rich celebration of what it means to imagine and create, which in the end is the essence of being human and native to a place....
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had hoped for more info
- By Bruno MacDonald on 10-10-22
By: Nick Kary
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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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In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object beautiful and examining how we can compare differing judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely....
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Extraordinary Book and Narration.
- By Anonymous User on 29-09-21
By: Roger Scruton
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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
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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....
By: Alva Noe
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The Architecture of Happiness
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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In his extraordinary new book, Alain de Botton explores the importance of buildings in our lives....
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A bit washy.
- By Anonymous User on 29-01-19
By: Alain de Botton
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See What You're Missing
- 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too
- By: Will Gompertz
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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In his typical engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists - from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the world - to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness....
By: Will Gompertz
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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
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The Aesthetic Brain takes the listener on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art....
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Fantastic exploration into all of beauty
- By Chris T. on 05-09-21
By: Anjan Chatterjee
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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
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On both economic and psychological grounds, author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a "knowledge worker," based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing. Crawford presents an articulated call for self-reliance....
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i wish had read this book years ago
- By Anonymous User on 30-01-23
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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....
By: Henry James, and others
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Aesthetics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Bence Nanay
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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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....
By: Bence Nanay
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The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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One of Nietzsche’s earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a remarkable source of inspiration....
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Difficult and Challenging Book. Very well read.
- By Stephen John Roberts on 21-08-19
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How to Wake Up
- A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow
- By: Toni Bernhard
- Narrated by: Deon Vozov
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow, describes the path to peace amid all of life's ups and downs....
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Loved this book
- By MARGARET on 04-08-14
By: Toni Bernhard
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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
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From the author of the multimillion-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection of Robert Pirsig’s writings on the central theme of his thought—“quality”—featuring never-before-seen selections from his unpublished works....
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Wanting to fall asleep?
- By Simons on 26-07-23
By: Robert M. Pirsig, and others
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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
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In A Philosophical Enquiry, Edmund Burke sets out to define the nature of beauty and sublimity, and establish an objective criterion for discussing aesthetics....
By: Edmund Burke
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
- A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
- By: J.F. Martel
- Length: 7 hrs
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Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present....
By: J.F. Martel
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Chromophobia
- FOCI
- By: David Batchelor
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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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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What Is Art?
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Stephane Cornicard
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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During the decades of his world fame as sage and preacher as well as author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion....
By: Leo Tolstoy
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How to See the World
- (A Pelican Book)
- By: Nicholas Mirzoeff
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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In the first book to define visual culture for the general listener, Mirzoeff draws on art history, theory and everyday experience to provide an engaging and accessible overview of how visual materials shape and define our lives....
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Poststructuralism
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Catherine Belsey
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. This Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture....
By: Catherine Belsey
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Hatha Yoga
- By: Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson
- Narrated by: Andrew Morantz
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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This audiobook is devoted only to the first named, and we will not attempt to describe the others at this time, although we will have something to say upon all of these great branches of yoga, in future writings....
By: Yogi Ramacharaka, and others
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Prometheism
- By: Jason Reza Jorjani
- Narrated by: Daniel Natal
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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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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The Virtues of the Table
- How to Eat and Think
- By: Julian Baggini
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste....
By: Julian Baggini
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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
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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....
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Decluttering Your Life: How to Declutter and Organize Your Home, Your Mind, and Your Life
- The Path to a Clean Home, Clear Mind, and Better Life Using the Japanese Art of Decluttering
- By: Sabrina Godwin
- Narrated by: Tiana Hanson
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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If you feel overwhelmed, stressed, and like you constantly have a huge weight on your shoulders, odds are you need to declutter your life. Decluttering is highly necessary in today’s world, but you also need to know how to do it and what to look for to know if it’s working....
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Just declutter period
- By 8PZZG4UHGCGJG on 15-09-20
By: Sabrina Godwin
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Cosmos : Le sublime 1
- Brève encyclopédie du monde 4.1
- By: Michel Onfray
- Narrated by: Michel Onfray
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Le dernier opus de "Cosmos" explore les arts, la poésie et la musique : ces créations humaines qui s'allient à la nature pour permettre à...
By: Michel Onfray