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Parfit
- A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
- Auteur(s): David Edmonds
- Narrateur(s): Zeb Soanes
- Durée: 13 h et 14 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas have shaped the way philosophers think about things that affect us all: equality, altruism, what we owe to future generations, and even what it means to be a person. In Parfit, David Edmonds presents the first biography of an intriguing, obsessive, and eccentric genius.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent biography, excellent narration
- Écrit par Alex Bryant le 2023-04-28
- Parfit
- A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
- Auteur(s): David Edmonds
- Narrateur(s): Zeb Soanes
Excellent biography, excellent narration
Évalué le: 2023-04-28
Anyone interested in Anglo Analytic philosophy will get a kick out of this fantastic biography, but you certainly don't need formal training in philosophy to enjoy it. Edmonds manages to make wideranging philosophical debates and inside ball accessable and entertaining, reminiscent of Monk's Wittgenstein biography.
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Elite Capture
- How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)
- Auteur(s): Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
- Narrateur(s): Jaime Lincoln Smth
- Durée: 3 h et 17 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 5
“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom. But the “identity politics” so compulsively referenced bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, “identity politics” is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important, if incredibly dense work.
- Écrit par Cal le 2022-08-12
- Elite Capture
- How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)
- Auteur(s): Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
- Narrateur(s): Jaime Lincoln Smth
Great political philosophy of knowledge, well read
Évalué le: 2022-05-10
Loved the book, loved the narrator, loved that it was concise. If you want a quick, incisive account of the politicial significance of elite capture in our time, check this out.
Not necessarily sure I buy Táíwò's worry about folk standpoint epistemologies , but I'm interested.
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Arabian Nights: Volume 1
- An Audible Original Drama
- Auteur(s): Marty Ross
- Narrateur(s): Zahra Ahmadi, Raghad Chaar, Omid Djalili, Autres
- Durée: 8 h et 20 min
- Production originale
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 89
This multicast dramatisation of Arabian Nights: Volume 1 is an Audible Original reenvisioning of three iconic tales - with a twist. Adapted by the great Marty Ross, whose previous audio dramas include Romeo and Jude, Dark Shadows, Doctor Who and Blood and Stone, listeners can expect to hear Sheherezade, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves and Julnar the Sea Born as they've never done before.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bit too Game of Thrones
- Écrit par Darin Heydenrych le 2019-06-13
- Arabian Nights: Volume 1
- An Audible Original Drama
- Auteur(s): Marty Ross
- Narrateur(s): Zahra Ahmadi, Raghad Chaar, Omid Djalili, Walles Hamonde, Mandana Jones, Adam Sina, full cast
Fantastic performances and story
Évalué le: 2022-04-13
I ended up listening to the whole thing in just a few days because it was compelling. I know nothing about how close this adaptation is to any of the existing translations or the original manuscripts, but I had a blast regardless!
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What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Haruki Murakami
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 4 h et 23 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 237
From the best-selling author of Kafka on the Shore comes this rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on his life. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers Murakami's four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon. Settings range from Tokyo, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston, among young women who outpace him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hoped for insight – got monotony
- Écrit par C. L. Peressotti le 2020-05-03
- What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Haruki Murakami
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
As much a writing memoir as a running memoir
Évalué le: 2022-02-09
Really enjoyed this, and I'm not even a Murakami fan really. His reflections on the experience of running and the relationship between running and writing is his life were compelling for me as I do both. I do think you probably need to tick one of those boxes to get something from this memoir (fan, runner, writer/work involves writing), but if you do it's great.
Was worried at first about the narrator being a bit flat, but the performance is effective.
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Come As You Are: Revised and Updated
- The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
- Auteur(s): Emily Nagoski PhD
- Narrateur(s): Emily Nagoski, Nicholas Boulton
- Durée: 11 h et 30 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 370
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 290
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 289
For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently - and far less seriously - than its male counterpart. That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book (Man’s Perspective). Helps to understand the other side
- Écrit par Brittany MacMillan le 2021-07-19
- Come As You Are: Revised and Updated
- The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
- Auteur(s): Emily Nagoski PhD
- Narrateur(s): Emily Nagoski, Nicholas Boulton
Excellent book, incredible audio production.
Évalué le: 2022-02-05
I haven't read the first edition so can't comment on the difference. That said, WOW, incredible book, written with care and wit, incredibly helpful, inspiring, exactly what I was hoping for. Research-driven, trauma-informed, actionable sex and relationship advice.
I considered buying the hardcopy of this book but I'm glad I didn't, as the performances and production here are so well done. The first time a new voice showed up I was so surprised, but it worked perfectly. This may he the best audiobook production I've encountered--well done.
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The Right to Sex
- Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
- Auteur(s): Amia Srinivasan
- Narrateur(s): Andia Winslow
- Durée: 6 h et 42 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 11
We do not know the future of sex—but perhaps we could imagine it. Amia Srinivasan’s stunning debut helps us do just that. She traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope of a different world. She reaches back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political phenomenon. She discusses a range of fraught relationships—between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important contribution, fantastic narration.
- Écrit par Alex Bryant le 2021-09-28
- The Right to Sex
- Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
- Auteur(s): Amia Srinivasan
- Narrateur(s): Andia Winslow
Important contribution, fantastic narration.
Évalué le: 2021-09-28
Srinivassan puts pressure upon received views in feminist sexual politics in a timely and essential way here. Combined with the wonderful narrator, I found it hard to stop listening to these essays. Quite likely I'll listen again and pick up the text just to review the references.
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They Said This Would Be Fun
- Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
- Auteur(s): Eternity Martis
- Narrateur(s): Eternity Martis
- Durée: 7 h et 42 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 114
A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by White students in blackface at parties, dealt with being the only person of colour in class and was tokenized by her romantic partners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This reframed my perspective about London, ON
- Écrit par JMS le 2020-07-13
- They Said This Would Be Fun
- Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
- Auteur(s): Eternity Martis
- Narrateur(s): Eternity Martis
Essential stories, fantastic narration.
Évalué le: 2021-07-25
Listened to this in one sitting today. Wow.
It is such a privilege to hear this memoir read in the author's own voice. The stories Martis tells of her experiences as a Black woman at Western are at once horrifying and compelling.
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Fahrenheit 451
- Auteur(s): Ray Bradbury
- Narrateur(s): Tim Robbins
- Durée: 5 h et 1 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 1 336
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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4 out of 5 stars
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A dystopian tale relevant today
- Écrit par Tee le 2018-06-13
- Fahrenheit 451
- Auteur(s): Ray Bradbury
- Narrateur(s): Tim Robbins
Wonderful performance
Évalué le: 2020-07-19
This performance marvelous, with a very good recording. I wasn't captured by the story, but that is a matter of taste more than anything.
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