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Brought to you by Penguin.
What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?
One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.
In this bold and provocative audiobook, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going.
ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY
'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack Obama
'Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last... It may be the best book I've ever read' Chris Evans
'Sweeps the cobwebs out of your brain... Radiates power and clarity' Sunday Times
'It altered how I view our species and our world' Guardian
'Startling... It changes the way you look at the world' Simon Mayo
'I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who's interested in the history and future of our species' Bill Gates
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The Art of (Unconventional) War
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By: Malcolm Gladwell
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Principles
- Life and Work
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Ray Dalio, Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past 40 years to create unique results in both life and business - and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.
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Idea-meritocracy/Principles Reference
- By P Eberle on 06-30-18
By: Ray Dalio
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The Psychology of Money
- Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
- By: Morgan Housel
- Narrated by: Chris Hill
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.
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Could be summarized in one sentence
- By Alex on 05-30-21
By: Morgan Housel
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A New Earth
- Awakening Your Life's Purpose
- By: Eckhart Tolle
- Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived “in the now.” In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world.
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A Realized Being Shares In Person...a rare find.
- By Mr. Word Sponge on 12-05-09
By: Eckhart Tolle
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Emma
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Jane Austen, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrated by: Emma Thompson, Joanne Froggatt, Isabella Inchbald, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Austen wrote, 'I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like' and thus introduces the handsome, clever, rich - and flawed, Emma Woodhouse. Emma is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage; nothing however delights her more than matchmaking her fellow residents of Highbury. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
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Background sonds RUINED this
- By Sandra Dodd on 09-09-18
By: Jane Austen, and others
Life changing book
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We must know ourselves
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Excellent and very easy informative book
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eye-opening
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Superb!
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This book should be read by everyone
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Terrific read !
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I loved it!
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One of the most important books of our time
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I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. The story line is engaging and it's the kind of book that I wanted to make time to read...and then end up extending my listening time often. The one thing that did disappoint me a little bit is how the author at (very few) times fails to meet the minimum level of logical credibility when either challenging long-standing perspectives or offering un-intuitive new ones. It's obvious that this is done to prove to the reader just how easily perspectives that are seemingly cast in stone can be invalidated - but he does not always succeed as some of these arguments are just a little bit too weak. This does not take away from the argument he wants to make and the impact of his critical approach succeeds nevertheless.
I wanted the book to carry on...and felt like it ended too early - both because I was enjoying it so much but perhaps also because Homo Deus is a MUST READ once you have completed Sapiens.
hard hitting
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