Tag: Audible

  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Refugees

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 08/25/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The RefugeesThe Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

    Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015 and the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Nguyen’s next book, The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of 20 years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.

    With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration.

    The second piece of fiction by a major new voice in American letters, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 08/24/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced WorldThe Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World by Haemin Sunim

    A multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world.

    “Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?”

    The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. In this bestselling mindfulness guide—it has sold more than three million copies in Korea, where it was a #1 bestseller for forty-one weeks and received multiple Best Book of the Year awards, and it’s being published in more than 25 countries—Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life.

    By offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areas—including relationships, love, and spirituality—Haemin Sunim emphasizes the importance of forging a deeper connection with others and being compassionate and forgiving toward ourselves. The more than twenty full-color illustrations that accompany his teachings serve as calming visual interludes, encouraging us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Who’s in Charge?

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 08/22/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the BrainWho’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga

    Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    A powerful orthodoxy in the study of the brain has taken hold in recent years: Since physical laws govern the physical world and our own brains are part of that world, physical laws therefore govern our behavior and even our conscious selves. Free will is meaningless, goes the mantra; we live in a "determined" world.

    Not so, argues the renowned neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga in this thoughtful, provocative book based on his Gifford Lectures – one of the foremost lecture series in the world dealing with religion, science, and philosophy. Who’s in Charge? proposes that the mind, which is somehow generated by the physical processes of the brain, "constrains" the brain just as cars are constrained by the traffic they create. Writing with what Steven Pinker has called "his trademark wit and lack of pretension", Gazzaniga shows how determinism immeasurably weakens our views of human responsibility; it allows a murderer to argue, in effect, "It wasn’t me who did it – it was my brain." Gazzaniga convincingly argues that even given the latest insights into the physical mechanisms of the mind, there is an undeniable human reality: We are responsible agents who should be held accountable for our actions, because responsibility is found in how people interact, not in brains.

    An extraordinary book that ranges across neuroscience, psychology, ethics, and the law with a light touch but profound implications, Who’s in Charge? is a lasting contribution from one of the leading thinkers of our time.

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