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Reasons and Persons

by Derek Parfit ...

Narrated by Peter Batchelor ...

Unabridged

29 hours 18 min

Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for ... Read more

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Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for
... Read more

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The J-Complex

by Peter Batchelor ...

Could she, a professor of mathematics, follow the simple arithmetic of suicide, or would her courage fail her?A calculated terrorist attack on Australian soil raises alarm for the local police. Greater horrors lie behind the catastrophe of an imminent second action. The history of the early twenty-first century rests with three main characters: Josh, an ex-navy clearance diver; Jack, his Sydney ... Read more

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Could she, a professor of mathematics, follow the simple arithmetic of suicide, or would her courage fail her?A calculated terrorist attack on Australian soil raises alarm for the local police. Greater horrors lie behind the catastrophe of an imminent second action. The history of the early twenty-first century rests with three main characters: Josh, an ex-navy clearance diver; Jack, his Sydney
... Read more
The Bluff of Virtue

by Peter Batchelor ...

A story of the effects of trauma across three generations of family. A boy dies and a boy is left to navigate an un-envisioned adulthood. Members of subsequent generations find their individual way to function, each driven by the enigma that is virtue. ... Read more

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A story of the effects of trauma across three generations of family. A boy dies and a boy is left to navigate an un-envisioned adulthood. Members of subsequent generations find their individual way to function, each driven by the enigma that is virtue.
... Read more
Demilitarisation and Peace-Building in Southern Africa

Volume I - Concepts and Processes

by Peter Batchelor ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 2004 , this work is based on a collaborative research project, this trilogy considers the dynamics of demilitarisation and peace-building in southern Africa in the aftermath of major violent conflicts. The overall aim of the research is to support and facilitate the achievement of sustainable peace and human development in southern Africa, by analysing demilitarisation and peace ... Read more

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First published in 2004 , this work is based on a collaborative research project, this trilogy considers the dynamics of demilitarisation and peace-building in southern Africa in the aftermath of major violent conflicts. The overall aim of the research is to support and facilitate the achievement of sustainable peace and human development in southern Africa, by analysing demilitarisation and peace
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Controlling Small Arms

Consolidation, innovation and relevance in research and policy

Edited by Peter Batchelor, Kai Michael Kenkel ...

Series series Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
This edited volume takes stock of the state of research and policy on the issue of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), ten years after the UN first agreed to deal with the problem.The end of the Cold War originated a series of phenomena that would subsequently come to dominate the political agenda. Perhaps most symptomatic of the ensuing environment is the marked escalation in the scale and ... Read more

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This edited volume takes stock of the state of research and policy on the issue of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), ten years after the UN first agreed to deal with the problem.The end of the Cold War originated a series of phenomena that would subsequently come to dominate the political agenda. Perhaps most symptomatic of the ensuing environment is the marked escalation in the scale and
... Read more
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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear ...

Narrated by Peter Batchelor ...

Unabridged

30 hours 46 min

Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker)Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set ... Read more

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Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker)Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set
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Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

Narrated by Peter Batchelor ...

Series series Vintage Classics
Unabridged

5 hours 44 min

"Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era." (The New Yorker)Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly ... Read more

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"Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era." (The New Yorker)Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics)

by Nikolai Gogol ...

Narrated by Peter Batchelor ...

Unabridged

17 hours 37 min

Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling, Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by obligation to an overarching theme.Selected from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and Petersburg ... Read more

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Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling, Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by obligation to an overarching theme.Selected from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and Petersburg
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Reasons and Persons

by Derek Parfit ...

Narrated by Peter Batchelor ...

Unabridged

29 hours 18 min

Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for ... Read more

$34.99 USD

Also available as: eBooks

Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for
... Read more

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The Adolescent

by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

Narrated by P.J. Ochlan ...

Unabridged

28 hours 25 min

The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive nineteen-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father's wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he ... Read more

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The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive nineteen-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father's wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he
... Read more

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The Double and The Gambler

by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

12 hours 52 min

The Double, written in Dostoevsky's youth, was a sharp turn away from the realism of his first novel, Poor Folk. The first real expression of his genius, The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelgänger—a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with ... Read more

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The Double, written in Dostoevsky's youth, was a sharp turn away from the realism of his first novel, Poor Folk. The first real expression of his genius, The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelgänger—a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with
... Read more

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Your Symphony of Selves

Discover and Understand More of Who We Are

by James Fadiman, Ph.D., Mr. Jordan Gruber ...

Narrated by Andy Rick ...

Unabridged

14 hours 36 min

Why you are a different you at different times and how that’s both normal and healthy• Reveals that each of us is made up of multiple selves, any of which can come to the forefront in different situations• Offers examples of healthy multiple selves from psychology, neuroscience, pop culture, literature, and ancient cultures and traditions• Explores how to harmonize our selves and learn to access ... Read more

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Why you are a different you at different times and how that’s both normal and healthy• Reveals that each of us is made up of multiple selves, any of which can come to the forefront in different situations• Offers examples of healthy multiple selves from psychology, neuroscience, pop culture, literature, and ancient cultures and traditions• Explores how to harmonize our selves and learn to access
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