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The Book of Life

Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)

Faith and reason, love and virtue, morality and mortality! In these two short volumes the famous novelist, essayist, and playwright, Upton Sinclair, confided his most prized worldly wisdom for generations to come. His kind and witty personal advice both provokes and enlightens page by page. (Summary by Rom Maczka)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	00 - Introductory	Rom Maczka	00:11:56
Play 01	01 - Nature of Life & Nature of Faith	Rom Maczka	00:23:43
Play 02	02 - Use of Reason & Origin of Morality	Rom Maczka	00:23:56
Play 03	03 - Nature and Man & Man the Rebel	Rom Maczka	00:30:01
Play 04	04 - Making Our Morals & Virtues of Moderation	Rom Maczka	00:29:51
Play 05	05 - The Choosing of Life & Myself and My Neighbor	Rom Maczka	00:31:33
Play 06	06 - The Mind and the Body & The Mind of the Body	Rom Maczka	00:40:55
Play 07	07 - Exploring the Subconscious & The Problem of Immortality	Rom Maczka	00:40:32
Play 08	08 - The Evidence for Survival	Rom Maczka	00:28:47
Play 09	09 - The Powers of the Mind & The Conduct of the Mind	Rom Maczka	00:33:54
Play 10	10 - The Unity of the Body	Rom Maczka	00:27:12
Play 11	11 - Experiments in Diet	Rom Maczka	00:21:28
Play 12	12 - Errors in Diet	Rom Maczka	00:32:39
Play 13	13 - Diet Standards	Rom Maczka	00:31:18
Play 14	14 - Foods and Poisons	Rom Maczka	00:29:25
Play 15	15 - More About Health & Work and Play	Rom Maczka	00:35:07
Play 16	16 - The Fasting Cure & Breaking the Fast	Rom Maczka	00:33:03
Play 17	17 - Diseases and Cures	Rom Maczka	00:44:47
Play 18	18 - The Reality of Marriage & The Development of Marriage	Rom Maczka	00:32:32
Play 19	19 - Sex and Young America & Sex and the Smart Set	Rom Maczka	00:37:59
Play 20	20 - Sex & the Poor, Sex & Nature, and Love & Economics	Rom Maczka	00:29:49
Play 21	21 - Marriage & Money, Love Versus Lust, Celibacy Versus Chastity	Rom Maczka	00:40:19
Play 22	22 - The Defense of Love, Birth Control	Rom Maczka	00:32:46
Play 23	23 - Early Marriage, The Marriage Club, Education for Marriage	Rom Maczka	00:32:57
Play 24	24 - The Money Side of Marriage, The Defense of Monogamy, The Problem of Jealousy	Rom Maczka	00:35:41
Play 25	25 - The Problem of Divorce, The Restriction of Divorce	Rom Maczka	00:20:20
Play 26	26 - The Ego and the World, Competition and Co-operation	Rom Maczka	00:33:27
Play 27	27 - Aristocracy & Democracy, Ruling Classes, The Process of Social Evolution	Rom Maczka	00:31:27
Play 28	28 - Industrial Evolution, The Class Struggle, The Capitalist System	Rom Maczka	00:39:48
Play 29	29 - The Capitalist Process, Hard Times, The Iron Ring	Rom Maczka	00:24:08
Play 30	30 - Foreign Markets, Capitalist War, The Possibilities of Production	Rom Maczka	00:29:41
Play 31	31 - The Cost of Competition, Socialism and Syndicalism, Communism and Anarchism	Rom Maczka	00:35:19
Play 32	32 - Social Revolution, Confiscation or Compensation, Expropriating the Expropriators	Rom Maczka	00:33:01
Play 33	33 - The Problem of the Land, The Control of Credit	Rom Maczka	00:28:33
Play 34	34 - The Control of Industry, The New World, Agricultural Production	Rom Maczka	00:31:05
Play 35	35 - Intellectual Production, Mankind Remade	Rom Maczka	00:30:58

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