The Book of Life

Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Education · English

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)

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1 00 - Introductory 11:56
2 01 - Nature of Life & Nature of Faith 23:43
3 02 - Use of Reason & Origin of Morality 23:56
4 03 - Nature and Man & Man the Rebel 30:01
5 04 - Making Our Morals & Virtues of Moderation 29:51
6 05 - The Choosing of Life & Myself and My Neighbor 31:33
7 06 - The Mind and the Body & The Mind of the Body 40:55
8 07 - Exploring the Subconscious & The Problem of Immortality 40:32
9 08 - The Evidence for Survival 28:47
10 09 - The Powers of the Mind & The Conduct of the Mind 33:54
11 10 - The Unity of the Body 27:12
12 11 - Experiments in Diet 21:28
13 12 - Errors in Diet 32:39
14 13 - Diet Standards 31:18
15 14 - Foods and Poisons 29:25
16 15 - More About Health & Work and Play 35:07
17 16 - The Fasting Cure & Breaking the Fast 33:03
18 17 - Diseases and Cures 44:47
19 18 - The Reality of Marriage & The Development of Marriage 32:32
20 19 - Sex and Young America & Sex and the Smart Set 37:59
21 20 - Sex & the Poor, Sex & Nature, and Love & Economics 29:49
22 21 - Marriage & Money, Love Versus Lust, Celibacy Versus Chastity 40:19
23 22 - The Defense of Love, Birth Control 32:46
24 23 - Early Marriage, The Marriage Club, Education for Marriage 32:57
25 24 - The Money Side of Marriage, The Defense of Monogamy, The Problem of Jealousy 35:42
26 25 - The Problem of Divorce, The Restriction of Divorce 20:20
27 26 - The Ego and the World, Competition and Co-operation 33:27
28 27 - Aristocracy & Democracy, Ruling Classes, The Process of Social Evolution 31:27
29 28 - Industrial Evolution, The Class Struggle, The Capitalist System 39:48
30 29 - The Capitalist Process, Hard Times, The Iron Ring 24:08
31 30 - Foreign Markets, Capitalist War, The Possibilities of Production 29:41
32 31 - The Cost of Competition, Socialism and Syndicalism, Communism and Anarchism 35:19
33 32 - Social Revolution, Confiscation or Compensation, Expropriating the Expropriators 33:01
34 33 - The Problem of the Land, The Control of Credit 28:33
35 34 - The Control of Industry, The New World, Agricultural Production 31:05
36 35 - Intellectual Production, Mankind Remade 30:58