Jeremy Johnson has narrated 8 audiobooks on Listento.it by 9 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 5 ratings. The most-rated is How Pleasure Works.
How Pleasure Works
Summary
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom presents a striking new vision of the pleasures of everyday life. The thought of sex with a virgin is intensely arousing for many men. The average American spends over four hours a day watching television. Abstract art can sell for millions of dollars. Young children enjoy playing with imaginary friends and can be comforted by security blankets. People slow their cars to look at gory accidents and go to movies that make them cry. In this fascinating and witty account, Paul Bloom examines the science behind these curious desires, attractions, and tastes, covering everything from the animal instincts of sex and food to the uniquely human taste for art, music, and stories. Drawing on insights from child development, philosophy, neuroscience, and behavioural economics, How Pleasure Works shows how certain universal habits of the human mind explain what we like and why we like it.
©2010 Paul Bloom (P)2010 Audible Inc
How Pleasure Works
Summary
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom presents a striking new vision of the pleasures of everyday life. The thought of sex with a virgin is intensely arousing for many men. The average American spends over four hours a day watching television. Abstract art can sell for millions of dollars. Young children enjoy playing with imaginary friends and can be comforted by security blankets. People slow their cars to look at gory accidents and go to movies that make them cry. In this fascinating and witty account, Paul Bloom examines the science behind these curious desires, attractions, and tastes, covering everything from the animal instincts of sex and food to the uniquely human taste for art, music, and stories. Drawing on insights from child development, philosophy, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, How Pleasure Works shows how certain universal habits of the human mind explain what we like and why we like it.
©2010 Paul Bloom (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
Oath of Fealty
Summary
In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, wracked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state-of-the-art technology to create a completely human-friendly environment, offering its dwellers everything they could want in exchange for their oath of allegiance and their constant surveillance. But there are those who want to see the utopia destroyed, whose answer to tomorrow's best and brightest hope is mindless violence. And they have just entered Todos Santos.
©2007 Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
Zealous Love
Summary
Zealous Love is a response to some of the world's urgent needs in light of Christ's great love. Through first-hand accounts and up-to-date facts about eight global issues, Zealous Love uniquely provides readers with the information, inspiration, and involvement they crave to personally make a difference in their world.
©2010 Mike and Danae Yankoski (P)2010 Zondervan
Pandemonia Chronicles: DAWN
Summary
An encounter with a strange medallion leaves 16-year-old Gestalt possessed by the spirit of an ancient Demon King, making him a key player in a war between the Demon King and the Goddess of Life. Unfortunately, the Demon King wants to destroy the world, and the Goddess wants to enslave everyone in it! With the aid of a talking teddy bear, a grumpy demon dog, and a unicorn princess who wants to marry him, Gestalt embarks on a journey to stop the Goddess' sinister plot and find a way to get rid of the Demon King - yet, he must also rely on the dark power of the Demon King in order to stand a chance against the powerful minions of the Goddess. Can Gestalt resist against the corrupting temptations of the Demon King and save the world, rather than destroy it? Is it even possible for a mere human to stand up against the power of a goddess?
©2012 Carey Martell (P)2016 Carey Martell
If We Survive
Summary
They came on a mission of mercy, but now they're in a fight for their lives. High schooler Will Peterson and three friends journeyed to Central America to help rebuild a school. In a poor, secluded mountain village, they won the hearts of the local people with their energy and kindness. But in one sudden moment, everything went horribly wrong. A revolution swept the country. Now, guns and terror are everywhere - and Americans are being targeted as the first to die. Will and his friends have got to get out fast. But streets full of killers, hills patrolled by armies, and a jungle rife with danger stand between them and the border. Their one hope of escape lies with a veteran warrior who has lost his faith and may betray them at any moment. Their one dream is to reach freedom, safety, and home. If they can just survive.
©2012 Andrew Klavan (P)2012 Oasis Audio Ltd
Surfing Aquarius: How to Ace the Wave of Change
Summary
Furst views 2012 as the beginning of a spiritual transformation, when awakened human beings will create new societies based on Aquarian principles of inventive teamwork and empowered service, both to one another and to Mother Earth. Aquarian economics won't be based on scarcity. Aquarian medicine won't be driven by big-budget pharmaceutical and insurance companies. Aquarian spirituality will be based on union, friendship, love, and celebration.
©2011 Dan Furst (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
Moments with the Savior
Summary
Ken Gire delicately weaves events, emotions, thoughts, and faces into a moving depiction of the life of Christ that takes you on a step-by-step journey with the Lord. Woven with threads of humanity and divinity, Moments with the Savior reveals the Lord who calls you to a more intimate relationship with him.
©2010 Ken Gire (P)2010 Zondervan