Audiobooks narrated by Dean Sluyter

The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics

- Like Sluyter’s previous books and the workshops he teaches throughout the U.S., the Guide builds bridges between Dharma — authentic, traditional methods of awakening — and modern life - Sluyter’s media appearances have included National Public Radio, Oprah & Friends Radio, Coast to Coast AM, The New York Times, New York Magazine, USA Today, Prevention, InStyle, and O: The Oprah Magazine

Dean Sluyter (Author), Dean Sluyter (Narrator)

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The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight and Independence for Today's Investor

In this book, the author will equip the individual investor for financial success through dividends. He will separate the topic broadly into three elements: income, information, and independence. Most any investor will be familiar with the income aspect--who can argue with a check in the mail? The elements of information (that dividends convey crucial information, and that a stock can be evaluated entirely from the point of view of the dividend) and independence (our ability to form an entire investment strategy using dividends and dividends alone) will, by contrast, strike many investors as new and unfamiliar. Yet these aspects are both timeless and time-tested, sufficient enough to enable individual investors to succeed.

Josh Morningstar Inc., Josh Morningstar, Inc., Peters (Author), Dean Sluyter (Narrator)

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Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction

These days there's so much fear in the air, you can almost taste it-along with all the varieties of anxiety, anger, and addiction that grow out of it. How can you navigate your way through the fear and confusion, and find your way to peace? In Fear Less, acclaimed teacher and award-winning author Dean Sluyter shows how to use simple meditative techniques and subtle tweaks of body, mind, and breath to open your life to deep, relaxed confidence. Drawing on ancient enlightenment teachings as well as contemporary research, he lays out practical, easy-to-follow steps for addressing such issues as: letting go of compulsive overthinking loosening the bonds of addiction (including smartphone addiction) overcoming the fear of death finding meditative stillness in the thick of activity

Dean Sluyter (Author), Dean Sluyter (Narrator)

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Natural Meditation

There’s no trying in meditation. If you can breathe, you can meditate. Just as water naturally runs downhill and leaves float naturally to the ground, we are all naturally able to settle into meditation. Meditation doesn’t require trying; rather, meditation comes out of just allowing—not doing, just being. Whether you’re a complete novice or you’ve 'tried it before,' veteran meditation teacher Dean Sluyter’s relaxed, down-to-earth approach will help you test-drive a variety of meditative techniques, such as breath, sound, the senses, the sky, and the simple sense of 'I,' and discover which ones fit you best. You’ll discover that the key to meditation is effortlessness, and find all the practical tips you need for adapting these methods to your own life, as you live it, even for a few minutes a day. And as your life opens to deep happiness, clarity, peace, and creative energy, you’ll be inspired to keep on practicing—naturally.

Dean Sluyter (Author), Dean Sluyter (Narrator)

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Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities

A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigations. The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a “dignified” manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe. Thirty Years of Treason serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record. “We have Bentley to thank for this bittersweet vaudeville show, this congressional cabaret of the absurd, this peptic epic…What he has done is give us HUAC as spectacle, and the perspective is shattering.”—New York Times

Eric Bentley, Various Authors (Author), A Full Cast, Alex Hyde-White, Arthur Morey, Burt Reynolds, Christian Rummel, Claire Bloom, Coleen Marlo, Dean Sluyter, Gabrielle De Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Jean Smart, Jim Meskimen, John Rubinstein, Kirby Heyborne, Kristoffer Tabori, Lee Rosch, Molly Underwood, Nathan Dana Aldrich, Orson Scott Card, Paul Boehmer, Richard Gilliland, Richard Mcgonagle, Robertson Dean, Roscoe Lee Browne, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Sunil Malhotra, Ted Scott, Theodore Bikel (Narrator)

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Thirty Years of Treason, Volume 1: Excerpts from Hearings before the House Committee on Un-American

A fascinating look into the federal government’s anti-Communist investigations The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a “dignified” manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe. Thirty Years of Treason serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record. “[Portrays] a dark chapter in our nation’s history that needs to be remembered.”—Library Journal

Eric Bentley, Various Authors (Author), A Full Cast, Alex Hyde-White, Claire Bloom, Coleen Marlo, Dean Sluyter, Gabrielle De Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Jim Meskimen, John Rubinstein, Nathan Dana Aldrich, Orson Scott Card, Paul Boehmer, Richard Mcgonagle, Stefan Rudnicki, Ted Scott, Theodore Bikel, Various, Various Narrators (Narrator)

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Test of Fire

Earth has been devastated by a massive solar flare. Now a small group of survivors fights to rebuild civilization. Cities became ovens, grasslands seas of flame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet, its fiery finger killed everything in its path. Glaciers in Switzerland began to melt; floodwaters poured down on burning Alpine villages. Paris became a torch, then London. North of the Arctic Circle, Laplanders in their summer furs burst into flame as their reindeer collapsed and roasted on the smoking tundra. The line of dawn raced westward across the Atlantic, but as it did, the sun dimmed as quickly as it had flared. The Americas escaped the sun’s wrath … almost. “A hard, dark book, the story of mankind after the fall…Compulsive reading…The battle to rebuild Earth after its almost total destruction by a gigantic solar flare.”—Harry Harrison

Ben Bova (Author), Dean Sluyter (Narrator)

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Catastrophic Care

A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system. In 2007, David Goldhill's father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year caused by medical error. The bill was enormous-and Medicare paid it. These circumstances left Goldhill angry and determined to understand how world-class technology and personnel could coexist with such carelessness-and how a business that failed so miserably could be paid in full. Catastrophic Care is the eye-opening result. Blending personal anecdotes and extensive research, Goldhill presents us with cogent, biting analysis that challenges the basic preconceptions that have shaped our thinking for decades. Contrasting the Island of health care with the Mainland of our economy, he demonstrates that high costs, excess medicine, terrible service, and medical error are the inevitable consequences of our insurance-based system. He explains why policy efforts to fix these problems have invariably produced perverse results, and how the new Affordable Care Act is more likely to deepen than to solve these issues. Goldhill steps outside the incremental and wonkish debates to question the conventional wisdom blinding us to more fundamental issues. He proposes a comprehensive new way, where the customer (the patient) is first-a system focused on health and maintaining it, a system strong and vibrant enough for our future. If you think health care is interesting only to institutes and politicians, think again: Catastrophic Care is surprising, engaging, and brimming with insights born of questions nobody has thought to ask. Above all it is a book of new ideas that can transform the way we understand a subject we often take for granted.

David Goldhill (Author), Dean Sluyter (Narrator)

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Real Relationships

In this updated edition of their bestselling book, Relationships, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott dig below the surface to the depths of human interactions, offering expert advice and practical tools for improving the most important aspect of human life: relationships. Designed for college students, young adults, singles, and dating couples, this cutting-edge book teaches the basics of healthy relationships, including friendship, dating, sexuality, and relating to God. Newly updated and expanded to include the latest research on relationship building and vital information on social networking, it provides readers with proven tools for making bad relationships better and good relationships great. Real Relationships is filled with thought-provoking questions and links to its separate workbook. The workbook---integral to getting the most out of Real Relationships---contains dozens of self-tests and assessments that will help readers determine their relational readiness, the health of the home they grew up in, their understanding of gender differences, and much more. Real Relationships and the Real Relationships Workbook furnish an honest and timely guide to forming the rich relationships that are life's greatest treasure.

Dr. Les Parrott, Dr. Leslie Parrott, Les And Leslie Parrott, Leslie Parrott (Author), Dean Sluyter, Les And Leslie Parrott, Sasha Harris (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Dean Sluyter