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I Don't Know
- In Praise of Admitting Ignorance and Doubt (Except When You Shouldn't)
- Narrado por: Karen Saltus
- Duración: 2 h y 21 m
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A short, concise audiobook in favor of honoring doubt and admitting when the answer is: I don’t know. In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean. Weaving entertaining, anecdotal reporting with eye-opening research, she considers both the ramifications of and alternatives to this ubiquitous habit in arenas as varied as education, finance, medicine, politics, warfare, trial courts, and climate change. But it’s more than just encouraging listeners to confess their ignorance - Cohen proposes that we have much to gain by embracing uncertainty. Three little words can in fact liberate and empower, and increase the possibilities for true communication. So much becomes possible when we honor doubt.
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 158
Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right - a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong. Backed by years of research and delivered in energetic prose, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) offers a fascinating explanation of self-deception.
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2 out of 5 stars
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If you're a liberal hater - this book's for you
- De MRN en 11-13-20
De: Carol Tavris, y otros
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Covering
- The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
- De: Kenji Yoshino
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized attributes, we all encounter pressure to cover in our daily lives. Given its pervasiveness, we may experience this pressure to be a simple fact of social life. Against conventional understanding, Kenji Yoshino argues that the demand to cover can pose a hidden threat to our civil rights.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Humane Advocacy in Law and Life
- De Patroclus Menoetius en 07-27-20
De: Kenji Yoshino
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Wait, What?
- And Life's Other Essential Questions
- De: James E. Ryan
- Narrado por: James E. Ryan
- Duración: 2 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,384
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,137
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,135
In his commencement address to the graduating class of 2016, James E. Ryan, dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, offered remarkable advice to the crowd of hopeful men and women eager to make their marks on the world. The key to achieving emotional connections and social progress, he told them, can be found in five essential questions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great For Our Jobs, Our Families, Our Lives!
- De Gillian en 05-18-18
De: James E. Ryan
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Capture
- Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
- De: David A. Kessler MD
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wish we did not? For decades, New York Times best-selling author Dr. David A. Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon - capture - is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by forces outside our control.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Confused
- De TS en 05-17-16
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
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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Witness
- De: Ariel Burger
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 176
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 154
Ariel Burger first met Elie Wiesel at age 15. They studied together and taught together. Witness chronicles the intimate conversations between these two men over decades as Burger sought counsel on matters of intellect, spirituality, and faith while navigating his own personal journey from boyhood to manhood, from student and assistant to rabbi and, in time, teacher. In this profoundly hopeful, thought-provoking, and inspiring audiobook, Burger takes us into Elie Wiesel's classroom, where the art of listening and storytelling conspire to keep memory alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Touching and enlightening
- De Yakira Colish en 03-12-19
De: Ariel Burger
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Life Beyond Measure
- Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
- De: Sidney Poitier
- Narrado por: Sidney Poitier
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on his amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form of extended letters to his great-granddaughter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mix of family history and life advice.
- De Adam Shields en 10-31-19
De: Sidney Poitier
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Faitheist
- How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious
- De: Chris Stedman
- Narrado por: Corey Snow
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement - whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens - speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and the widespread, vehement disdain for religion among many of them. In Faitheist, Chris Stedman tells his own story to challenge the orthodoxies of this movement and make a passionate argument that atheists should engage religious diversity respectfully.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where's the Common Ground ?
- De Susie en 04-29-13
De: Chris Stedman
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The News
- A User's Manual
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Nicholas Bell
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
The news is everywhere. We can’t stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds? We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton (author of the best-selling The Architecture of Happiness), but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Quit the news
- De Bett Bollhoefer en 05-16-15
De: Alain de Botton
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For Your Own Good
- Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
- De: Alice Miller
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term effects of abusive child-rearing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be required reading for everyone
- De Timothy en 05-15-18
De: Alice Miller
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Fully Alive
- Discovering What Matters Most
- De: Timothy Shriver
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
At a time when we are all more rudderless than ever, we look for the very best teachers and mentors to guide us. In Fully Alive, an unusual and gripping memoir, Timothy Shriver shows how his teachers have been the world's most forgotten minority: people with intellectual disabilities. In these pages we meet the individuals who helped him come of age and find a deeper and more meaningful way to see the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye opening book
- De Robert J. Herman en 06-05-15
De: Timothy Shriver
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Butterfly in the Typewriter
- The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of a Confederacy of Dunces
- De: Cory MacLauchlin
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. In Butterfly in the Typewriter, Cory MacLauchlin draws on scores of new interviews with friends, family, and colleagues as well as full access to the extensive Toole archive at Tulane University, capturing his upbringing in New Orleans, his years in New York City, his frenzy of writing in Puerto Rico, his return to his beloved city, and his descent into paranoia and depression.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth it! Good biography. Informative.
- De French Quarter en 07-09-13
De: Cory MacLauchlin
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Willful Blindness
- Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
- De: Margaret Heffernan
- Narrado por: Margaret Heffernan
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 270
Margaret Heffernan argues that the biggest threats and dangers we face are the ones we don't see - not because they're secret or invisible, but because we're willfully blind. A distinguished businesswoman and writer, she examines the phenomenon and traces its imprint in our private and working lives, and within governments and organizations, and asks: What makes us prefer ignorance? What are we so afraid of? Why do some people see more than others? And how can we change?
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4 out of 5 stars
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How Not to Be the Blind Leading the Blind
- De Cynthia en 06-29-13
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Bonds That Make Us Free
- Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves
- De: C. Terry Warner
- Narrado por: C. Terry Warner
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 324
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 273
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 270
Bonds That Make Us Free is a groundbreaking book that suggests the remedy for our troubling emotions by addressing their root causes. You'll learn how, in ways we scarcely suspect, we are responsible for feelings like anger, envy, and insecurity that we have blamed on others. Even though we fear to admit this, it is good news. If we produce these emotions, it falls within our power to stop them. But we have to understand our part in them far better than we do, and that is what this remarkable book teaches.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Helped save our marriage.
- De Kevin Gray en 02-15-19
De: C. Terry Warner
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Oddly Normal
- One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
- De: John Schwartz
- Narrado por: John Schwartz, Joseph Schwartz
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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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 54
Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent for the New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: His 13-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe had delivered a tirade about homophobic and sexist attitudes that was greeted with unease and confusion by his fellow students. Hours later, he took an overdose of pills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Effect of Parental Caring
- De Wiliam en 01-16-13
De: John Schwartz
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To Show and to Tell
- The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
- De: Phillip Lopate
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” ( Dallas Morning News). Here, combining more than 40 years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction. A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate’s informative, accessible tone, and immense gift for storytelling.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a guide on writing personal essays
- De A. Yoshida en 08-07-13
De: Phillip Lopate