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Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- De Rebecca en 05-29-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- A Memoir
- De: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 149
Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- De: Dina Nayeri
- Narrado por: Dina Nayeri
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually, she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of resilience and compassion
- De PAH en 09-06-19
De: Dina Nayeri
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Isak Dinesen
- The Life of a Storyteller
- De: Judith Thurman
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 21 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
Isak Dinesen earned international fame for Seven Gothic Tales and Out of Africa, and other stories that skillfully combine elements of fable, social conflict, and psychological drama. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. Yet the story of her life - her travels, affairs, and friendships - remains the greatest story of all.
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3 out of 5 stars
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over-written
- De Jacqui Good en 10-19-18
De: Judith Thurman
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,054
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 928
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 922
Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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4 out of 5 stars
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Genius & Anxiety
- How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
- De: Norman Lebrecht
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent volume, beautifully designed, is an urgent and necessary celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Post-anxiety
- De Amaze en 03-27-20
De: Norman Lebrecht
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Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- De: Teju Cole
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Teaches and Shares
- De Carolyn J. en 10-08-17
De: Teju Cole
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The Road from Coorain
- De: Jill Ker Conway
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 141
In the 1930s, Jill Ker's parents bought a sheep farm on the western plains of New South Wales. In 1944, they lost nearly everything when a drought hit. Forced to leave Coorain, 11-year-old Jill and her mother settled in Sydney where Jill struggled to find a place for herself among Sydney's elite. Her story, both a chronicle of life in the Australian outback and the odyssey of a brilliant woman fighting the constraints of her time, offers a loving view of Australia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So glad I (finally) listened to my aunt
- De T. en 07-12-13
De: Jill Ker Conway
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The Consolations of Philosophy
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 667
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 493
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: He has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cheering, empathic, helpful
- De Austin en 11-11-09
De: Alain de Botton
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Sontag
- Her Life and Work
- De: Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
No writer is as emblematic of the American 20th century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cloying voice
- De Suzanne en 11-02-19
De: Benjamin Moser
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The Myth of the American Dream
- Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety and Power
- De: D.L. Mayfield
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they actually compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors. Where did these values come from? How have they failed those on the edges of our society? And how can we disentangle ourselves from our culture's headlong pursuit of these values and live faithful lives of service to God and our neighbors?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sooooo good. Powerful
- De D. Frazier en 08-19-21
De: D.L. Mayfield
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The Sum of Our Days
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory - and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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She does not disappoint
- De ChiChi's Rule en 06-01-22
De: Isabel Allende
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I Am Dynamite!
- A Life of Nietzsche
- De: Sue Prideaux
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 291
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 289
Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings listeners into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand history's most misunderstood philosopher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating; tragic
- De Cineaste21 en 12-30-18
De: Sue Prideaux
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The Odd Woman and the City
- A Memoir
- De: Vivian Gornick
- Narrado por: Vivian Gornick
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yet another Gornick masterpiece
- De Lo en 01-14-23
De: Vivian Gornick
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The Long Loneliness
- The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
- De: Dorothy Day
- Narrado por: Nancy Linari
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 83
When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality...founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and leader for more than 50 years in numerous battles of social justice.” Here, in her own words, this remarkable woman tells of her early life as a young journalist in the crucible of Greenwich Village political and literary thought in the 1920s, and of her momentous conversion to Catholicism that meant the end of a Bohemian lifestyle and common-law marriage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Required reading for any who work in poverty
- De marguerite allred-crawford en 11-16-20
De: Dorothy Day
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Istanbul
- Memories and the City
- De: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 178
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy—or hüzün—that all Istanbullus share.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible pronunciation
- De K. Jaynes en 02-25-18
De: Orhan Pamuk
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Metaphysical Animals
- How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
- De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachae Wiseman
- Narrado por: Alex Dunmore
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Book about nothing
- De Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez en 06-14-22
De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, y otros