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Author: Sophie Sabbage
Format: Online
Author Sophie Sabbage
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 47m
'I have cancer. Cancer does not have me.' Sophie Sabbage was diagnosed with late stage 'incurable' lung cancer in October 2014. She was 48 years old, happily married with a 4-year-old daughter. Since that day - when doctors told Sophie that her prognosis was poor - she has been on a remarkable journey of healing and transformation that has reshaped...
View BookThe Seven Spiritual Laws For Parents
Author: Deepak Chopra
Format: Online
Author Deepak Chopra
Narrator Arthur Morey
Duration 2h 31m
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success was a phenomenally successful book-more than 1,600,000 copies were sold-and as copies were passed between friends and loved ones, it touched millions more lives. Its author, Deepak Chopra, received thousands of letters from readers, many of whom expressed the desire to convey those same principles to their childr...
View BookWe: A Manifesto For Women Everywhere
Author: Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Nadal
Format: Online
Author Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Nadal
Narrator The Authors
Duration 9h 43m
WE is an inspiring, empowering and provocative manifesto for change. Change which we can all effect, one woman at a time. Change which provides a crucial and timely antidote to the 'have-it-all' Superwoman culture and instead focusses on what will make each and every one of us happier and more free. Change which provides an answer to the nagging se...
View BookHomo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Format: Online
Author Yuval Noah Harari
Narrator Derek Perkins
Duration 14h 53m
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares tha...
View BookMindfulness Meditation For Pain Relief
Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Author Jon Kabat-Zinn
Narrator Jon Kabat-Zinn
Duration 1h 55m
If you're reading this, chances are that your life, or the life of someone you know, is shaped by pain-and by the physical and emotional suffering that usually accompany it. The good news: Jon Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues have helped thousands of people learn to use the power of mindfulness to transform their relationship to pain and suffering, an...
View BookCaptivate: The Science of Succeeding With People
Author: Vanessa Van Edwards
Format: Online
Author Vanessa Van Edwards
Narrator Vanessa Van Edwards
Duration 7h 28m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People written and read by Vanessa Van Edwards. Wish you knew exactly what to say in awkward social situations? Or that you had a formula for charisma? You need to know how people work. As a human behaviour investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards...
View BookAuthor: Ruby Wax
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Author Ruby Wax
Narrator Ruby Wax
Duration 7h 14m
A three way encounter between a Monk, a neuroscientist and Ruby Wax sounds like the set up for a joke. Instead it's produced one of the most fascinating, intriguing and informative books about minds and bodies and brains and mindfulness I've ever encountered. A triangulation on what it means to be human. Utterly readable and surprisingly wise. Neil...
View BookWhen the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Author: Gabor Mate
Format: Online
Author Gabor Mate
Narrator Daniel Mate
Duration 13h 17m
Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer's disease? Is there such a thing as a 'cancer personality'? Drawing on deep scientific research and Dr Gabor Mat‚'s acclaimed clinical work, When the Body Says No provides the answers to critical questions about the mind-body...
View BookThe Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body In the Healing of Trauma
Author: Der Kolk Bessel Van
Format: Online
Author Der Kolk Bessel Van
Narrator Sean Pratt
Duration 16h 17m
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.
View BookIllness As Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors
Author: Susan Sontag
Format: Online
Author Susan Sontag
Narrator Tavia Gilbert
Duration 4h 40m
In l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor. A cancer patient herself at the time, she shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it i...
View BookSoulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
Author: Bill Plotkin
Format: Online
Author Bill Plotkin
Narrator Rob Grgach
Duration 14h 16m
Filled with stories, poems, and guidelines, Soulcraft introduces over forty practices that facilitate the descent to soul, including dreamwork, wilderness vision fasts, talking across the species boundaries, council, self-designed ceremony, nature-based shadow work, and the arts of romance, being lost, and storytelling.
View BookRamayana: An Ancient Indian Epic
Author: Shreyas Pulle
Format: Online
Author Shreyas Pulle
Narrator The Authors
Duration 1h 6m
The great Indian epic - the Ramayana - has been told and retold over thousands of years by poets, performers, and writers. It is a tale of courage and fear, love and hate, devotion and betrayal. The epic spans the three worlds of gods, humans, and demons. Here, the forces of good and evil collide, locked in a battle for the ultimate supremacy. Rama...
View BookAuthor: Matt Haig
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Author Matt Haig
Narrator Matt Haig
Duration 5h 11m
Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How do we...
View BookAuthor: Richard Holloway
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Author Richard Holloway
Narrator Richard Holloway
Duration 5h 13m
Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us? Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and women towards peaceful deaths. In The Last Bus, he presents a positive, me...
View BookAuthor: Meik Wiking
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Author Meik Wiking
Narrator Meik Wiking
Duration 4h 27m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Little Book of Lykke written and read by Meik Wiking. Lykke (Luu-kah) (n): Happiness It's easy to see why Denmark is often called the world's happiest country. Not only do they have equal parental leave for men and women, free higher education and trains that run on time, but they burn more candles per...
View BookAuthor: Steve Pinker
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Author Steve Pinker
Narrator Arthur Morey
Duration 19h 49m
Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer...
View BookA Monk's Guide To A Clean House and Mind
Author: Shoukei Matsumoto
Format: Online
Author Shoukei Matsumoto
Narrator Adam Sims
Duration 2h 5m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind by Shoukei Matsumoto, read by Adam Sims. We remove dust to sweep away our worldly desires. We scrub dirt to free ourselves of attachments. We live simply and take time to contemplate the self, mindfully living each moment. It's not just monks that need to live this w...
View BookThe Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
Author: John Lewis-Stempel
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Author John Lewis-Stempel
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 6h 32m
For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed the wood. He coppiced the trees and raised cows and pigs who roamed free there. This is the diary of the last year, by which time he had come to know it from the bottom of its beech roots to the tip of its oaks, and to know all the animals that lived there - the fox, the pheasants, the wood mice, the tawny...
View BookAuthor: Board Robert De
Format: Online
Author Board Robert De
Narrator Charles Hunt
Duration 4h 18m
'Toad' the famous character in Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows, is in a very depressed state and his good friends Rat, Mole and Badger are 'worried that he might do something silly'...'First they nursed him. Then they encouraged him. Then they told him to pull himself together...Finally, Badger could stand it no longer. "Now look here Toad, th...
View BookAuthor: Eckhart Tolle
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Author Eckhart Tolle
Narrator Eckhart Tolle
Duration 7h 37m
Open yourself to the transforming experience of The Power of Now, the acclaimed bestseller by revolutionary spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, now in an audio program read by the author. To make the journey into the Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first page of Eckhart Tolle's e...
View BookAuthor: Bren Brown
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Author Bren Brown
Narrator Bren Brown
Duration 6h 30m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Daring Greatly written and read by Bren‚ Brown. Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings - we strive to appear perfect. In a powerful new...
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