Search results for “Daniel Maté”

The Myth of Normal

By: Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté

Narrated by: Daniel Maté

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.

In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries... Read more

Women's Hotel

By: Daniel M. Lavery

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

National BestsellerONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED READS 1�7em>New York Times, Vulture, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, and moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.The Biedermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the... Read more

A True History of the United States

By: Daniel A. Sjursen

Narrated by: Daniel A. Sjursen

Length: 24 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“Thought-provoking—a must read for [everyone] seeking a firm grasp of accurate American history."  —Kirkus (starred review)

Brilliant, readable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic and the perfect companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s... Read more

Elbow Room

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments." In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth... Read more

The House of the Dead

By: Daniel Beer

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 17 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Cundill History Prize 

A visceral, hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony.

It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof.' From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia.  Daniel Beer... Read more

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Jeff Crawford

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful “imagination-extenders and focus-holders 1�7 meant to... Read more

You Can Stop Humming Now

By: Daniela Lamas

Narrated by: Daniela Lamas & Susannah Jones

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology.

Modern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To the public eye, medical stories often begin with sirens and flashing lights and culminate... Read more

Become the Force

By: Daniel M. Jones

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel M Jones founded the Church of Jediism in 2007 following the Jedi Census phenomenon of 2001; it now has over 500,000 members around the world. This is the book his fans have been waiting for. In it, Daniel outlines the Jedi perspective and provides practical tools for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how to use the... Read more

From Bacteria to Bach and Back

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What is human consciousness and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of... Read more

Alive at Work

By: Daniel M. Cable

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Poll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem? In this bold, enlightening book, social psychologist and professor Daniel M. Cable takes leaders into the minds of workers and reveals the surprising secret to restoring their zest for work.... Read more

Cost Estimation

By: Gregory K. Mislick & Daniel A. Nussbaum

Narrated by: Matthew Boston

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Presents an accessible approach to the cost estimation tools, concepts, and techniques needed to support analytical and cost decisions



Written with an easy-to-understand approach, Cost Estimation: Methods and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the quantitative techniques needed by professional cost estimators and for those wanting to learn... Read more

Scholars of Mayhem

By: Daniel C. Guiet & Timothy K. Smith

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day.

When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved country, as they frequently did, his father had... Read more

Her Daughter's Mother

By: Daniela Petrova

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, Carlotta Brentan, Dan Bittner & ...

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

She befriended the one woman she was never supposed to meet. Now she's the key suspect in her disappearance. For fans of The Perfect Mother and The Wife Between Us comes a gripping psychological suspense debut about two strangers, one incredible connection, and the steep price of obsession.

Lana Stone has never considered herself a stalker--until... Read more

Junction

By: Daniel M. Bensen

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

When Japanese nature show host Daisuke Matsumori finds himself on an alien world, he hopes to rekindle his passion for his work. Traveling through a newly–discovered wormhole in the Papuan highlands, he joins biologist Anne Houlihan on Junction, a patchwork planet of competing alien ecosystems.



When their exploratory party crashes in the alien... Read more

Something That May Shock and Discredit You

By: Daniel M. Lavery

Narrated by: Daniel M. Lavery

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

 1�7b>One of our smartest, most inventive humor writers, Ortberg combines bathos and the devotional into a revelation. 1�7 —Jordy Rosenberg, The New York Times Book Review

From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre and Merry Spinster, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence 1�7 column, and cofounder of The Toast comes a hilarious and... Read more

La tropa

By: Daniela Rea & Pablo Ferri

Narrated by: Rubén Hernández

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Desde que el Ejército asumió el papel de la policía, una persona muere cada día a manos de militares en México. ¿Qué hay detrás de esas muertes? En estas páginas se encuentran respuestas que revelan un rostro terrible, fracturado, sangriento y al mismo tiempo conmovedor. Un soldado mata y una parte del Estado se rompe. Algo que no debería... Read more

The Joy of Search

By: Daniel M. Russell

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?").



We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it 1�7"Japan... Read more

From Last to First: A Parent's Guide to Fencing Success

By: Jon Salfield and Daniela I. Norris

Narrated by: Jon Salfield and Daniela I. Norris

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With the exciting sport of fencing steadily becoming more mainstream in the UK, US and around the world, parents are spending thousands each year to help and encourage their children to train and excel in this unique Olympic sport.
Fencing can be a mysterious world to the uninitiated, and parents and young fencers will have many questions about... Read more

A Better Planet

By: Daniel C. Esty

Narrated by: Traber Burns, Erica Sullivan, William Hughes, A...

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world’s leading thinkers on the environment and sustainabilitySustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need... Read more

Space and Time Magazine

By: Angela Yuriko Smith, Clinton Lawrence, Christin...

Narrated by: Ryan Aussie Smith

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Space and Time Magazine has been putting the best speculative fiction and poetry in ink for over five decades—a must-read for true fans of Strange and Unusual. Readers can look forward to stories from the future stars of genre fiction intermingled with unique tales from pros like Jessica A. Salmonson, Norman Spinrad, Jack Ketchum, and Aliette de... Read more

The Little Book of Attachment

By: Daniel A. Hughes & Ben Gurney-Smith

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A practical guide to implementing the rich theory of attachment for treating mental health challenges in children.



This book both explains and illustrates how the practice of child mental health professionals can be enhanced, whatever their treatment approach, to encourage engagement, resilience, and development in children with mental health... Read more

Exceptional

By: Daniel M. Cable

Narrated by: Daniel M. Cable

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A Three-Step Process to Access and Activate Your Full Potential

Imagine switching on the television to see a highlight reel of the best moments from your life. Like a professional athlete, with every clip you'd learn how to repeat past successes, pinpoint positive blind spots, and build confidence in your skills.

In Exceptional, London Business... Read more

Reality

By: Daniel A. Liut

Narrated by: Jonathan Bond

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A very engaging, imaginative, and descriptive story that draws you into the action from the start. It has parallels to life and is an enjoyable read.

In this fast-moving, science fiction fantasy, an everyday kid of our Earth finds himself abruptly immersed in a conflict raging in an unsuspected alternative universe. His personal limitations, the... Read more

Live at Jackson Station

By: Daniel M. Harrison

Narrated by: Gary Bennett

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The smoke was thick, the music was loud, and the beer was flowing. In the fast-and-loose 1980s, Jackson Station Rhythm and Blues Club in Hodges, South Carolina, was a festive late-night roadhouse filled with people from all walks of life who gathered to listen to the live music of high-energy performers. Housed in a Reconstruction-era railway... Read more