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Publication: The NY Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity.
The New York Review of Books is available online and is published monthly.
THE MYSTERY OF CONSCIOUSNESS--part 1
What is consciousness? Is my inner awareness of myself something separate from my body?
- Topic
- Science and Technology
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- Author
- John R. Searle
- Publication
- 1995 The NY Review of Books
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 51 minutes
THE MYSTERY OF CONSCIOUSNESS--part 2
Only when we understand how the brain works will we begin to understand issues ranging from artificial intelligence to our very nature as human beings.
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- Science and Technology
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- Author
- John R. Searle
- Publication
- 1995 The NY Review of Books
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 47 minutes
AN UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION
A twenty-six-year-old American from Santa Monica, California, famously married Hussein ibn Talal, a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, and became Queen Noor of Jordan.
- Topic
- World Issues
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- Author
- Amos Elon
- Publication
- 2003 The NY Review of Books
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- Length
- 21 minutes
DRAMATURGY OF DEATH
Nietzsche denied that capital punishment ever arose from a single or consistent theory of its intent or effect.
- Topic
- Politics and Public Issues
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- Author
- Wills
- Publication
- 2001 The NY Review of Books
- Read by
- Steve Easter
- Length
- 36 minutes
THE DISCOVERY OF THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS PART ONE
In December 1945, in the Upper Egyptian desert, an Arab peasant made an astonishing discovery of thirteen papyrus books.
- Topic
- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Elaine H. Pagels
- Publication
- 1979 The NY Review of Books
- Read by
- Steve Easter
- Length
- 42 minutes
INVENTING SHERLOCK HOLMES
A review of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volumes 1 and 2.
- Topic
- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Michael Chabon
- Publication
- 2005 The NY Review of Books
- Read by
- Ken Phifer
- Length
- 18 minutes