Holding a Mirror Up to Nature
Shame, Guilt, and Violence in Shakespeare
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John Douglas Thompson
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Tod Randolph
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James Gilligan
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At a time when violence in America and Europe dominates the daily news, a groundbreaking new book co-authored by James Gilligan, an eminent psychiatrist who has worked with criminals, and David A.J. Richards, a legal scholar of toxic patriarchy, illuminates the ways in which Shakespeare offers unique insights into the causes of violence as well as its prevention.
Now a riveting new audio production, Holding a Mirror Up to Nature: Shame, Guilt, and Violence in Shakespeare takes advantage of scenes performed by acclaimed actors to dramatize how much Shakespeare’s tragic heroes exhibit the psychology of those who commit violence in the contemporary world.
The voice of British-American actor John Douglas Thompson called “perhaps the greatest Shakespeare interpreter in contemporary theater,” together with women’s parts spoken by Shakespeare & Company’s distinguished Tod Randolph, and narration by award-winning theater star Nigel Gore, orchestrate this tour de force audiobook that belongs in the listening library of everyone who loves Shakespeare and is curious about what causes and what prevents violence.
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Civilization and Its Discontents, Totem and Taboo
- De: Sigmund Freud
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is remembered as the father of psychoanalysis. Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) is one of his key works, written three decades after his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams. In it he considers the conflict between the needs of the individual acting both egotistically and altruistically in the pursuit of happiness and the myriad demands of civilised society and the ensuing tensions this clash of needs and demands generates.
De: Sigmund Freud
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Strangers in a Strange Land
- Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World
- De: Charles J. Chaput
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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From Charles J. Chaput, author of Living the Catholic Faith and Render unto Caesar, comes Strangers in a Strange Land, a fresh, urgent, and ultimately hopeful treatise on the state of Catholicism and Christianity in the United States. America today is different in kind, not just in degree, from the past. And this new reality is unlikely to be reversed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- De CFletcher en 07-04-17
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The Reason for God
- Belief in an Age of Skepticism
- De: Timothy Keller
- Narrado por: Timothy Keller
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Best seller lists are filled with doubters. But what happens when you actually doubt your doubts? Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unrivaled Apologetics
- De Daniel en 05-01-13
De: Timothy Keller
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How Evil Works
- De: David Kupelian
- Narrado por: Jon Gauger
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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Despite the human race's extraordinary capacity for invention and progress, we clearly have a millennia-old blind spot in one all-important area: We don't understand evil -- what it is, how it works, and why it so routinely and effortlessly ruins our lives. Put another way, we don't understand ourselves.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Has the advantage of bluntness
- De Suppresst en 07-14-10
De: David Kupelian
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Anarchism and Other Essays
- De: Emma Goldman
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Among the men and women prominent in the public life of early 20th-century America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman. Yet the real Emma Goldman is almost quite unknown. Here are powerful, penetrating, prophetic essays on direct action, the role of minorities, prison reform, puritan hypocrisy, and violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Critical reading for today's world
- De Darwin en 02-27-17
De: Emma Goldman
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The Ten Commandments
- The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life
- De: Laura Schlessinger Ph.D., Rabbi Stewart Vogel
- Narrado por: Laura Schlessinger Ph.D., Rabbi Stewart Vogel
- Duración: 2 h y 43 m
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The Ten Commandments are the first direct communication between a people and God. Designed to elevate our lives above mere frantic, animal existence to the sublime levels humanity is capable of experiencing, they are the blueprint of God's expectations of us and his plan for a meaningful, just, loving, and holy life. Each commandment asserts a principle, and each principle is a moral focus point for real-life issues relating to God, family, sex, work, charity, property, speech, and thought.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Ten Commandments
- De PineappleGirl en 12-08-06
De: Laura Schlessinger Ph.D., y otros
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On the Genealogy of Morals
- A Polemic
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Duncan Steen
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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In On the Genealogy of Morals, subtitled "A Polemic", Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices. He looks at the way attitudes towards 'morality' evolved and the way congenital ideas of morality were heavily colored by the Judaic and Christian traditions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Be strong, not weak.
- De Wayne en 06-24-13
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Inazo Nitobé
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
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Through a study of the way of the samurai, Nitobe identifies the seven virtues most widely recognized by the Japanese: rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, veracity, honor, and loyalty. In sharing these moral guidelines, handed down over generations, Nitobe gives the world unique insight into a previously unexplored code of honor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Contemplative
- De J. Eastman en 02-05-21
De: Inazo Nitobé
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The Rebel
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he reveals how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book is amazing
- De Amazon Customer en 10-06-19
De: Albert Camus
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Confronting Injustice Without Compromising Truth
- 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
- De: Thaddeus J. Williams, John M. Perkins - foreword
- Narrado por: Thaddeus J. Williams, full cast
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Drawing from a diverse range of theologians, sociologists, artists, and activists, Confronting Injustice Without Compromising Truth, by Thaddeus Williams, makes the case that we must be discerning if we are to "truly execute justice" as Scripture commands. Not everything called "social justice" today is compatible with a biblical vision of a better world. The Bible offers hopeful and distinctive answers to deep questions of worship, community, salvation, and knowledge that ought to mark a uniquely Christian pursuit of justice.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not Injustice - Conservative Justification
- De Peter en 07-06-21
De: Thaddeus J. Williams, y otros
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Good Without God
- What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
- De: Greg Epstein
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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A provocative and positive response to Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and other New Atheists, Good Without God makes a bold claim for what nonbelievers do share and believe. Epstein's Good Without God provides a constructive, challenging response to these manifestos by getting to the heart of Humanism and its positive belief in tolerance, community, morality, and good without having to rely on the guidance of a higher being.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Speaker sounds too robotic
- De Lisa S. en 08-27-21
De: Greg Epstein
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Why We Are Restless
- On the Modern Quest for Contentment
- De: Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change - even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a profound and beautiful reflection on the roots of this malaise and examine how we might begin to cure ourselves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good primer.
- De Chris en 09-29-21
De: Benjamin Storey, y otros
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The Denial of Death
- De: Ernest Becker
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie: man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than 30 years after its writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the closed-minded
- De Yhatze en 05-27-17
De: Ernest Becker
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The Ten Commandments
- Still the Best Moral Code
- De: Dennis Prager
- Narrado por: Lee Robertson
- Duración: 1 h y 6 m
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The most important words ever written are the Ten Commandments. These words changed the world when they were first presented at Mt. Sinai to Israelites, and they are changing it now. They are the foundation stones of Western civilization. Given their staggering importance, you would think that all societies, and certainly our educational and religious institutions, would be intent on studying them closely. Sadly, this is not the case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dennis should narrate his books
- De Diogo Barreto en 03-09-20
De: Dennis Prager