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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- Written by: Jim Holt
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
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Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot.
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Sexist overtones ruin an interesting read
- By Gregory on 2019-04-24
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-15
- Language: English
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On Women
- Written by: Susan Sontag, Merve Emre - introduction, David Rieff - editor
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls “that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites”; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these pieces—relentlessly curious, historically precise, politically robust, and allergic to easy categorization Sontag’s inimitable mind at work.
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On Women
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-06
- Language: English
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Mr. Know-It-All
- The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
- Written by: John Waters
- Narrated by: John Waters
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, how to cheat death itself.
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It's O-k
- By paul caron on 2020-09-17
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Mr. Know-It-All
- The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
- Narrated by: John Waters
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-21
- Language: English
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Erosion
- Essays of Undoing
- Written by: Terry Tempest Williams
- Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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In these new essays, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land, of the self, of belief, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered, worn, and whittled away through wind, water, and time is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming.
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Erosion
- Essays of Undoing
- Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2019-10-08
- Language: English
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Tonight I'm Someone Else
- Essays
- Written by: Chelsea Hodson
- Narrated by: Chelsea Hodson
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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From graffiti gangs and Grand Theft Auto to sugar daddies, Schopenhauer, and a deadly game of Russian roulette, in these essays, Chelsea Hodson probes her own desires to examine where the physical and the proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy, our intimacy, and our own bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking, linking, and sharing. Starting with Hodson’s own work experience, which ranges from the mundane to the bizarre - including modeling and working on a NASA Mars mission - Hodson expands outward, looking at the ways in which the human will submits, whether in the marketplace or in a relationship.
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Tonight I'm Someone Else
- Essays
- Narrated by: Chelsea Hodson
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-05
- Language: English
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Homo Irrealis
- Essays
- Written by: André Aciman
- Narrated by: André Aciman, Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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New York Times best-selling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name André Aciman returns to the essay form in Homo Irrealis to explore what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis is not about the present, or the past, or the future, but about what might have been but never was - but could in theory still happen. Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination's power to shape our memories under time's seemingly intractable hold.
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The recipe to all of the others.
- By Anonymous User on 2021-09-10
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Homo Irrealis
- Essays
- Narrated by: André Aciman, Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-19
- Language: English
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Wolfish
- Written by: Erica Berry
- Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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“This is one of those stories that begins with a female body. Hers was crumpled, roadside, in the ash-colored slush between asphalt and snowbank.” So begins Erica Berry’s kaleidoscopic exploration of wolves, both real and symbolic. At the center of this lyrical inquiry is the legendary OR-7, who roams away from his familial pack in northeastern Oregon. While charting OR-7’s record-breaking journey out of the Wallowa Mountains, Erica simultaneously details her own coming-of-age as she moves away from home and wrestles with inherited beliefs about fear, danger, femininity, and the body.
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Very fun and insightful listen
- By Kaleb Kroetsch on 2023-03-29
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Wolfish
- Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2023-02-21
- Language: English
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What on Earth Have I Done?
- Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
- Written by: Robert Fulghum
- Narrated by: Robert Fulghum
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Robert Fulghum's new book begins with a question we've all asked ourselves: "What on Earth have I done?" As Fulghum finds out, the answer is never easy and, almost always, surprising. For the last couple of years, Fulghum has been traveling the world, from Seattle to the Moab Desert to Crete, looking for a few fellow travelers interested in thinking along with him as he delights in the unexpected.
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What on Earth Have I Done?
- Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
- Narrated by: Robert Fulghum
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2007-09-11
- Language: English
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How to Be Alone
- Essays
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections.
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How to Be Alone
- Essays
- Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2013-01-29
- Language: English
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Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog
- The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
- Written by: Lisa Scottoline
- Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline's wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa lets her hair down, roots and all, to show the humorous side of life from a woman's perspective. The Sunday column debuted in 2007 and on the day it started, Lisa wrote, "I write novels, so I usually have 100,000 words to tell a story. In a column there's only 700 words. I can barely say hello in 700 words. I'm Italian."
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Listened to it lots. A wonderful "pick me up"!
- By Emma Evans on 2018-04-25
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Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog
- The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
- Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella
- Series: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2009-11-24
- Language: English
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Hogs Wild
- Selected Reporting Pieces
- Written by: Ian Frazier
- Narrated by: Ian Frazier
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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Part muckraker, part adventurer, and part raconteur, Frazier beholds, captures, and occasionally reimagines the spirit of the American experience. He travels down South to examine feral hogs and learns that their presence in any county is a strong indicator that it votes Republican. He introduces us to a man who, when his house is hit by a supposed meteorite, hopes to "leverage" the space object into opportunity for his family, and a New York City police detective who is fascinated with rap-music-related crimes.
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Hogs Wild
- Selected Reporting Pieces
- Narrated by: Ian Frazier
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-07
- Language: English
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Alibis
- Essays on Elsewhere
- Written by: André Aciman
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner, Alibis reminds the listener that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.
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Alibis
- Essays on Elsewhere
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2023-01-03
- Language: English
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Life in Code
- A Personal History of Technology
- Written by: Ellen Ullman
- Narrated by: Ellen Ullman
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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The last 20 years have brought us the rise of the Internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen Ullman lived and worked inside that rising culture of technology, and in Life in Code she tells the continuing story of the changes it wrought with a unique, expert perspective.
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Life in Code
- A Personal History of Technology
- Narrated by: Ellen Ullman
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2017-08-08
- Language: English
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This I Believe
- The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
- Written by: Jay Allison - editor, Dan Gediman - editor
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 53 mins
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Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features 80 Americans—from the famous to the unknown—completing the thought that begins with the book's title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.
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This I Believe
- The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 2012-01-05
- Language: English
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What About the Baby?
- Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
- Written by: Alice McDermott
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction gathers the best-selling novelist Alice McDermott’s pithiest wisdom about her chosen art, acquired over a lifetime as an acclaimed writer and teacher of writing.
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What About the Baby?
- Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-17
- Language: English
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Mothers of Sparta
- A Memoir in Pieces
- Written by: Dawn Davies
- Narrated by: Dawn Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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If you’re looking for a parenting audiobook, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother. This is an audiobook about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years - a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift 20-something who drops out of college to pursue her dream of making cheesecake on a stick a successful business franchise (ah, the ideals of youth).
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Mothers of Sparta
- A Memoir in Pieces
- Narrated by: Dawn Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2018-01-30
- Language: English
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O's Little Guide to the Big Questions
- Written by: Hearst Magazines
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper, Gabra Zackman, Helen Litchfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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What truly matters? What is my purpose? When is the right time to make a change? Who is most important to me? A thoughtful and provocative collection of personal essays, O's Little Guide to the Big Questions highlights the wisdom to be gained from engaging with life's deepest mysteries. Award-winning and best-selling writers for O, The Oprah Magazine have been tackling these and other crucial questions since the magazine's inception.
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O's Little Guide to the Big Questions
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper, Gabra Zackman, Helen Litchfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2018-01-02
- Language: English
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This I Believe II
- More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
- Written by: Jay Allison, Dan Gediman - editors
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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This second collection of This I Believe essays gathers 75 essayists - ranging from famous to previously unknown - completing the thought that begins the book's title. With contributors who run the gamut from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to ordinary folks like a diner waitress, an Iraq War veteran, a farmer, a new husband, and many others, This I Believe II, like the first New York Times best-selling collection, showcases moving and irresistible essays.
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This I Believe II
- More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Series: This I Believe, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2008-09-30
- Language: English
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Brown White Black
- An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
- Written by: Nishta J. Mehra
- Narrated by: Nishta J. Mehra
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance. Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is White; her adopted child, Shiv, who is Black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her clear-eyed and incisive writing on her family's daily struggle to make space for themselves amid racial intolerance and stereotypes personalizes some of America's most fraught issues.
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Brown White Black
- An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
- Narrated by: Nishta J. Mehra
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-05
- Language: English
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