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Shop Class as Soulcraft
- An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- De: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrado por: Max Bloomquist
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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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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Hands and brain: a matching set
- De Amazon Customer en 01-07-20
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
- A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
- De: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
- Narrado por: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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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....
De: J.F. Martel, y otros
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On Quality
- An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
- De: Robert M. Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Abby Craden
- Duración: 2 h y 58 m
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Now, for the first time, listeners will be granted access to five decades of Robert M. Pirsig's personal writings in this posthumous collection that illuminates the evolution of his thinking to an unprecedented degree.
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Interesting trip inside an obsessed mind.
- De Tom en 05-03-22
De: Robert M. Pirsig, y otros
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- De: John O'Donohue
- Narrado por: John O'Donohue
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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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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Stunning book
- De Kelly en 06-19-17
De: John O'Donohue
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
- De: Edmund Burke
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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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....
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Ought to be read more
- De Easy Rhino en 06-19-21
De: Edmund Burke
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How to Build a Boat
- A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea
- De: Jonathan Gornall
- Narrado por: Jonathan Gornall
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Part ode to building something with one’s hands in the modern age, part celebration of the beauty and function of boats, and part moving father-daughter story, How to Build a Boat is a bold adventure....
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The beautiful writing.
- De Anonymous User en 02-21-24
De: Jonathan Gornall
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Shop Class as Soulcraft
- An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- De: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrado por: Max Bloomquist
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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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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Hands and brain: a matching set
- De Amazon Customer en 01-07-20
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
- A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
- De: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
- Narrado por: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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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....
De: J.F. Martel, y otros
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On Quality
- An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
- De: Robert M. Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Abby Craden
- Duración: 2 h y 58 m
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Now, for the first time, listeners will be granted access to five decades of Robert M. Pirsig's personal writings in this posthumous collection that illuminates the evolution of his thinking to an unprecedented degree.
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Interesting trip inside an obsessed mind.
- De Tom en 05-03-22
De: Robert M. Pirsig, y otros
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- De: John O'Donohue
- Narrado por: John O'Donohue
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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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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Stunning book
- De Kelly en 06-19-17
De: John O'Donohue
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
- De: Edmund Burke
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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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....
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Ought to be read more
- De Easy Rhino en 06-19-21
De: Edmund Burke
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How to Build a Boat
- A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea
- De: Jonathan Gornall
- Narrado por: Jonathan Gornall
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Part ode to building something with one’s hands in the modern age, part celebration of the beauty and function of boats, and part moving father-daughter story, How to Build a Boat is a bold adventure....
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The beautiful writing.
- De Anonymous User en 02-21-24
De: Jonathan Gornall
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In Praise of Shadows
- De: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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How to listen
- De Anonymous User en 03-25-18
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Glamour
- A World Problem
- De: Alice A. Bailey, Alice Bailey
- Narrado por: Lucis Publishing Companies
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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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....
De: Alice A. Bailey, y otros
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Ecce Homo
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Ellis Freeman
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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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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Prometheism
- De: Jason Reza Jorjani
- Narrado por: Daniel Natal
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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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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Spectral, and proud of it.
- De Tomi C Owens en 05-31-24
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The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Duncan Steen
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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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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The Apollonian vs The Dionysian
- De JCW en 02-05-18
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Chromophobia
- FOCI
- De: David Batchelor
- Narrado por: Peter Coates
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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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....
De: David Batchelor
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
- De: Wassily Kandinsky
- Narrado por: David Pickering
- Duración: 2 h y 43 m
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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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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- De: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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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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I’ve enjoyed this program
- De Phil F. en 04-23-20
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The Art Instinct
- Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
- De: Denis Dutton
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived....
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A breath of fresh air!
- De Michael en 02-19-14
De: Denis Dutton
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The Entanglement
- How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
- De: Alva Noe
- Narrado por: Christopher Douyard
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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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....
De: Alva Noe
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Hatha Yoga
- De: Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson
- Narrado por: Andrew Morantz
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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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....
De: Yogi Ramacharaka, y otros
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The Art of Fiction
- De: Henry James, Walter Besant
- Narrado por: ChasMandala
- Duración: 2 h y 6 m
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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....
De: Henry James, y otros
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The Aesthetic Brain
- How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
- De: Anjan Chatterjee
- Narrado por: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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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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Disappointing
- De Clara en 12-22-15
De: Anjan Chatterjee
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The Art of Literature
- De: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 3 h y 49 m
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Arthur Schopenhauer's The Art of Literature is a lively, illuminating and brutally honest collection of essays on literary style and values, writers and critics, and the nature of genius....
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The Birth of Tragedy
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: John van Stan
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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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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Dressed
- A Philosophy of Clothes
- De: Shahidha Bari
- Narrado por: Shahidha Bari
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Dressed is the thinking person’s book about clothes. Ranging from suits to shoes, from Marx’s coat to Madame X’s gown, philosopher Shahidha Bari unveils the hidden power of what we wear, addressing the deepest questions of who we are and how we choose to face the world....
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Don’t get this book
- De Mia en 06-24-24
De: Shahidha Bari
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Magic and Loss
- The Internet as Art
- De: Virginia Heffernan
- Narrado por: Candace Thaxton, Virginia Heffernan - introduction
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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Just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television, Virginia Heffernan reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet....
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Title is misleading
- De Maija Kovari en 08-22-19
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How to Wake Up
- A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow
- De: Toni Bernhard
- Narrado por: Deon Vozov
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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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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Excellent
- De Michelle en 09-16-13
De: Toni Bernhard
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Of Arcs and Circles
- Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art
- De: Marc Peter Keane
- Narrado por: Marc Peter Keane
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
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From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives. How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new definition of what art is....
De: Marc Peter Keane
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Poetics/Rhetoric
- De: Aristotle
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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The Art of Rhetoric, a guide on the principles behind oratorical skill, is a core text on the art of persuasion. Aristotle contends that rhetoric is one of the key elements of philosophy – along with logic and dialectic....
De: Aristotle
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High Heel
- De: Summer Brennan
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
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Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves from film to fairytale, from foot binding to feminism, and from the golden ratio to glam rock....
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So good, my feet hurt LOL!
- De Amazon Customer en 10-14-21
De: Summer Brennan
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Imagination
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
- Narrado por: Rachael Beresford
- Duración: 4 h y 51 m
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Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways....
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Mirror, Mirror
- The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love
- De: Simon Blackburn
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior....
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A very maturation book
- De John A. en 01-27-22
De: Simon Blackburn
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El elogio de la sombra
- De: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrado por: Victor Clavijo
- Duración: 2 h y 36 m
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Un ensayo breve y al mismo tiempo revelador sobre el pensamiento estético en el arte japonés. En él, Tanizaki Junichiro reflexiona sobre el amor por el detalle, el minimalismo...
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Refreshing!
- De Ricardo Ernst en 05-29-24