Philosophy, Religion, and the Meaning of Life
By: Francis J. Ambrosio
3.74
Format: None pages, Audio CD
What is the meaning of life? Is human existence meaningful or absurd? If you've ever pondered thes…
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1. The Life And Operas Of Verdi
By: Robert Greenberg
4.32
Format: 378 pages, Audio Cassette
Describes the life and operas of the 19th century Italian composer, Giuseppe Verdi. Provides analys… read more
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2. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
3. The Birth Of The Modern Mind: The Intellectual History Of The 17th And 18th Centuries
By: Alan Charles Kors
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Audiobook
Course Lecture Titles IntroductionIntellectual History and Conceptual Change The Dawn of the 17th C… read more
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4. The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
By: Joseph Campbell , Phil Cousineau
4.33
Format: 48 pages, cloth
The author of Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God series, and The Power of Myth here turns… read more
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5. Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth
By: Joseph Campbell , Evans Lansing Smith
4.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first collection of Joseph Campbell's writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Mi… read more
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6. The Dead Sea Scrolls
By: Gary A. Rendsburg
4.06
Format: None pages,
The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the caves of Qumran could be considered the most remarkabl… read more
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7. A Little History of the World
By: E.H. Gombrich , Clifford Harper , None
4.11
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich w… read more
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8. The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History
By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask
4.00
Format: None pages,
This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the Nor… read more
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9. The Great Ideas of Philosophy (Great Courses, #4200)
By: Daniel N. Robinson
3.27
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Taught by Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D., Oxford University The Great Courses Philosophy & Int… read more
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10. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
By: Candice Millard
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more
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11. The Symphony (24 Lectures)
By: Robert Greenberg
4.03
Format: 288 pages,
Course Lecture Titles Let's Take It From the Top! The Concerto and the Orchestra The Pre-Classical … read more
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12. Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.23
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more
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"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
13. No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life (Great Courses, #437)
By: Robert C. Solomon
3.85
Format: 208 pages,
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14. How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
By: Massimo Pigliucci
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of How to Liveand How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient … read more
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15. Late Antiquity: Crisis and Transformation
By: Thomas F.X. Noble
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Audiobook
Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire painted a portrait of the Roman Empire in a lo… read more
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16. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
By: Tiago Forte
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more
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17. The Pallbearers Club
By: Paul Tremblay
3.10
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blo… read more
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18. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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19. The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
By: Jason M. Baxter
4.51
Format: None pages, Audio CD
C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an auth… read more
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20. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.94
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more
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"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
21. The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
By: Annie Murphy Paul
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A bold new book reveals how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains—in our bodies… read more
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22. Capitalism vs. Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems
By: Edward F. Stuart
3.93
Format: 280 pages, Audible Audio
Ever since we produced our course Thinking About Capitalism, customers have expressed interest in a… read more
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23. Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
By: Brian M. Fagan
3.81
Format: 18 pages, Audible Audio
Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civiliz… read more
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24. Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
By: Michael Shermer
3.81
Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 6 hours and 30 minutes The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, enter… read more
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25. Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
By: Michael Sugrue
4.21
Format: 12 pages, Audio CD
Socrates was driven by a love for truth so great that he suffered death rather than give up his sea… read more
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26. The Big Questions of Philosophy
By: David Kyle Johnson
4.18
Format: None pages, Audiobook
We have all pondered seemingly unanswerably but significant questions about our existence - the big… read more
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27. Music and the Brain
By: Aniruddh D. Patel
3.78
Format: None pages, Audiobook
In Music and the Brain, neuroscientist and Professor of Psychology Aniruddh Patel of Tufts Universi… read more
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28. The Vietnam War
By: John C. McManus
4.17
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
The war in Vietnam was initially a localized civil conflict—a bloody and brutal contest for state c… read more
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29. Philosophy, Religion, and the Meaning of Life
By: Francis J. Ambrosio
3.74
Format: None pages, Audio CD
What is the meaning of life? Is human existence meaningful or absurd? If you've ever pondered thes… read more
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30. Questions of Value
By: Patrick Grim
3.97
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Our lives are filled with everyday questions of fact and finance. Which investment brings the highe… read more
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31. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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