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Free Download The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments by Peter Catapano - editor, Sean Pratt, Marguerite Gavin
English | December 10, 2017 | ISBN: B01923P3MU | 26 hours and 29 minutes | MP3 63 Kbps | 705 Mb
The Stone Reader provides an unparalleled overview of contemporary philosophy.
Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when "The Stone" was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the column quickly attracted millions of readers through its accessible examination of universal topics like the nature of science, consciousness, and morality while also probing more contemporary issues such as the morality of drones, gun control, and the gender divide.
The Stone Reader presents 133 meaningful and influential essays from the series, placing nearly the entirety of modern philosophical discourse in the listener's reach. The audiobook, divided into four broad sections - philosophy, science, religion and morals, and society - opens with a series of questions about the scope, history, and identity of philosophy: What are the practical uses of philosophy? Does the discipline, begun in the West in ancient Greece with Socrates, favor men and exclude women? Does the history and study of philosophy betray a racial bias against nonwhite thinkers or geographical bias toward the West?

Free Download The Stoicism Workbook: How the Wisdom of Socrates Can Help You Build Resilience and Overcome Anything Life Throws at You (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D7QQPLN2 | 2024 | 4 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 269 MB
Author: Scott Waltman, R. Trent Codd III, Kasey Pierce
Narrator: Tim Fannon
What's the secret to lasting happiness? How do you gain the resilience needed to weather life's inevitable storms? For ancient philosophers like Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Zeno, and Epictetus, these questions were more than mere musings-they were key elements of a school of thought called Stoicism. In The Stoicism Workbook, you'll learn how thinking like Socrates can help you identify what truly matters in your life, and build the resilience needed to go and get it! Combining ancient philosophical wisdom with modern psychology, this practical self-help workbook will help you think flexibly, maintain inner peace, adapt to difficult situations, and improve your overall mental health and well-being. You'll also discover how the core Stoic virtues can be your compass as you navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Stoicism isn't about being emotionless in the face of pain or suffering. It's about giving yourself space for reflection before reacting. It's about seeing opportunities in everyday challenges. It's about wielding the power to decide to what extent sadness, pain, and anger affect you. Let this workbook guide you to learn more, and put this ancient wisdom into practice every day.

Free Download The Stoic Path to Wealth: Ancient Wisdom for Enduring Prosperity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YHVVGR | 2024 | 5 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Darius Foroux
Narrator: Mark Deakins
From investor and popular newsletter writer with 100k+ subscribers, Darius Foroux, comes an approach to building wealth that applies ancient wisdom to the chaos of modern-day markets. The Stoics understood that if you can control your reactions and manage your emotions, you can achieve success. The same principles apply to our financial lives today. The greatest investors approach the markets with discipline, emotional distance, and self-mastery-lessons that the Stoics have been teaching us for thousands of years. Combining ancient wisdom with practical investment strategies drawn from analysis of the greatest investors of all time, The Stoic Path to Wealth will teach you. As financial markets become increasingly unpredictable and chaotic, The Stoic Path to Wealth offers the key to weathering any economic storm while building wealth that will last a lifetime and beyond.

Free Download The Space Race: An Audible Original by Colin Brake, Patrick Chapman, Richard Hollingham
English | July 12, 2019 | ISBN: B07SXC2NHF | 9 hours and 12 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 506 Mb
The 1960s space race captured our imaginations and our dreams. Today's efforts to revitalize and expand space travel is being driven not just by government agencies such as NASA, but also by visionaries such as Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic), Elon Musk (SpaceX), and Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin).
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, this major documentary-drama series brings to life the past, present, and future of man's exploration of space. Between 1969 and 1972, twelve Americans walked on the moon. You'll get to experience the thrill of that era and much, much more.
Narrated by Kate Mulgrew (Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominee for Orange Is the New Black; Obie Award winner for Iphigenia 2.0); TV: Star Trek: Voyager, film: Star Trek: Nemesis), The Space Race uses actual audio, original interviews, dramatic reconstructions, and first-hand accounts to tell the story of mankind's first amazing steps off our world and onto the lunar surface.

Free Download The Soul: A History of the Human Mind (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRVRY15P | 2024 | 38 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 869 MB
Author: Paul Ham
Narrator: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Everyone thinks they have one, but nobody knows what it is. For thousands of years the soul was an 'organ', an entity, something that was part of all of us, that survived the death of the body and ventured to the underworld, or to heaven or hell. The soul could be saved, condemned, tortured, bought. And then, mysteriously, the 'soul' disappeared. The Enlightenment called it the 'Mind'. And today, neuroscientists demonstrate that the mind is the creation of the brain. In The Soul: A History of the Human Mind critically acclaimed historian Paul Ham embarks on a journey that has never been attempted: to restore the idea of the soul to the human story and to show how belief in, and beliefs arising from, the soul/mind are the engines of human history. The Soul is much more than a mesmerizing narrative and uniquely accessible way of explaining the human story. It transforms our understanding of how history works. It persuasively demonstrates that the beliefs of the soul/mind are the engines of human history.

Free Download The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers (Audiobook)
English | August 25, 2020 | ASIN: B082XJ2GLM | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 20m | 620 MB
Author and Narrator: Eric Weiner
The New York Times best-selling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history's greatest thinkers and showing us how each - from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir - offers practical and spiritual lessons for today's unsettled times.
We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a different perspective, to unearth hidden beauty, and to find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope.

Free Download The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5ZM8CKB | 2024 | 8 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Rosie Schaap
Narrator: Rosie Schaap
From the acclaimed author, a poignant, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful book-equal parts memoir and social history-that follows the author, after a series of tragic losses, to Northern Ireland, where she finds a path toward healing. Rosie Schaap had a solid career as a journalist and a life that looked to others like nonstop fun: all drinking and dining and traveling to beautiful places-and getting paid to write about it. But under the surface she was reeling from the loss of her husband and her mother-who died just one year apart. Caring for them had claimed much of her daily life in her late thirties. Mourning them would take longer.

Free Download The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJ5XRJLS | 2024 | 6 hours and 48 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 186 MB
Author: Matt Beane
Narrator: Joe Knezevich
From one of the world's top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots. Think of your most valuable skill, the thing you can reliably do under pressure to deliver results. How did you learn it? Whatever your job-plumber, attorney, teacher, surgeon-decades of research show that you achieved mastery by working with someone who knew more than you did. Formal learning-school and books-gave you conceptual knowledge, but you developed your skill by working with an expert. Today, this essential bond is under threat. In our grail-like quest to optimize productivity with intelligent technologies like AI and robots, we are separating junior workers from experts in workplaces around the world. It's a looming multi-trillion-dollar problem that few are addressing, until now.

Free Download The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08ZJRMWVS | 2024 | 10 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Ray Kurzweil
Narrator: Adam Barr
In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity-assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology-that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by connecting our brains to the cloud; how exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence; and the growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact employment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which aims to virtually revive deceased individuals through a combination of their data and DNA. The culmination of six decades of research on artificial intelligence, The Singularity Is Nearer is Ray Kurzweil's crowning contribution to the story of this science and the revolution that is to come.

Free Download The Shortest History of Japan: From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse: The Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D96N6D49 | 2024 | 6 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Lesley Downer
Narrator: Lucy Rayner
Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country that has long had a complicated relationship with the outside world. Even at the nearest point, Japan-an archipelago strung like a necklace around the Asian mainland-is considerably farther from Asia than Britain is from Europe. The sea provides an effective barrier against invasion and has enabled the culture to develop in unique and distinctive ways. During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shoguns successfully closed the country to the West.