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In 1602, Tommaso Campanella sat in a Neapolitan dungeon, broken by torture, and wrote a vision of paradise. His City of the Sun has been celebrated for four centuries as a founding document of utopian thought—a dream of perfect harmony, collective ownership, and philosopher-kings governing according to cosmic wisdom. This book argues that the celebration is misguided. The City of the Sun is not a utopia but an anti-utopia—a prison disguised as paradise, a nightmare dressed in the language of dreams.

Quasars are the brightest sustained phenomena in the known universe—engines of light powered by supermassive black holes devouring matter at the centers of distant galaxies. But they are more than cosmic spectacles. Every beam of quasar light that crosses the universe accumulates an extraordinarily detailed record of the gas, matter, and structure it passes through. The intergalactic medium writes its autobiography in the spectra of quasars, using absorption lines as words and sightlines as sentences.

This audiobook proposes a radical yet disciplined thesis: the Gospel is not only interpretable, but formally expressible, and its internal structure requires formalization if it is to remain stable, transmissible, and intelligible across radically different forms of intelligence.

Why do empires fall? Why do startups fail? Why does micromanagement kill innovation while total freedom produces chaos? Why do some relationships flourish while others suffocate or dissolve? The answer is a law as old as the universe and as relevant as tomorrow’s headlines.

This audiobook offers a clear, unvarnished look into a profession often wrapped in myth yet lived in exhaustion, responsibility, and quiet meaning. Moving through the early motivations that draw people toward nursing, it follows the listener into the reality of clinical environments, the demands of education, the shock of a first job, and the complex financial and ethical terrain that shapes a nurse’s everyday life.

Your cat is watching you right now. It knows your schedule, your footsteps, your moods. And you have no reliable way to know what it knows. For centuries, we have tried to communicate with animals by asking the wrong question: what are they thinking? In this bold, rigorous, and deeply original book, Boris Kriger argues that this question is not merely unanswerable—it is incoherent. The interior of any complex system, from a cat to a human brain to an AI chatbot, is permanently inaccessible. But the exterior—behavior—is observable, predictable, and measurable.

Why does love fade? Not because you chose the wrong person, and not because you failed to try hard enough. The fading of romantic passion is a structurally predictable consequence of human biology operating inside cultural institutions that demand permanence from a system designed for impermanence.

This book, more or less, demonstrates that time is most likely an illusion, its speed depends on age, and from a physical point of view, time, as such, may not make sense. Why should all this matter to us? Just as people suffered and died, they will continue to suffer and die. I have nothing to say to that. It’s true. And nothing can be done about it.

Replacing the psychologist with a computer, however strange it may be, can have a therapeutic effect because we invariably see in the psychologist a person who can judge us and experience disdainful feelings about our weaknesses. In many cases, the patient will not tell a real psychologist that which he reveals to a machine. Urges the patient feels are indecent and aggressive will be hidden from the psychologist until a trusting relationship is built.

What is the connection between the expansion of the universe and sadomasochism? Why is everything in the world striving for decay? How can one realize this and effectively resist self-destruction, at least on an individual level? The peculiarity of this audiobook is that the author tries to make broad generalizations, referring to various scientific disciplines. This audiobook discusses self-destruction at all levels, from cosmology to the human psyche, in which self-destruction is considered a deviation from the norm.

Teddybearness is a system of values, ideas, and actions, based on a gentle and benevolent attitude towards everything and everyone, the absence of all anger, hatred, envy, and hostility. Teddybearness ignores the insolubility of the problems of this world and is aimed at creating maximum comfort “here and now”.

This audiobook raises questions why our world is such, and not different, showing a lot of opportunities to create other worlds, in some ways similar and in some things fundamentally different from ours. The audiobook offers the highest moral law of the creators - not to create imperfect worlds, painful for their inhabitants.

The world is changing at an incredible pace. Many areas do not have time to come into compliance with these changes. One of these areas is taxation and incomes. The principle of collecting taxes from companies and individuals is flawed because it implies the possibility of tax evasion, and because high taxes really hinder the development of business and the lives of individuals, and therefore the development of the society for which these taxes are collected.

This book follows philosophy to the point where certainty no longer expands but instead reveals its boundaries. Beginning with the cogito not as a triumphant foundation but as a residue left after radical doubt, the text traces how attempts to ground existence, selfhood, consciousness, and reality repeatedly encounter structural limits. Animals, machines, simulated worlds, quantum theory, theology, and the self are examined not to extend certainty, but to show where and why it fails.

For a century, physicists and philosophers have treated quantum mechanics as an anomaly—a realm where particles tunnel through barriers, exist in multiple states at once, and refuse to reveal their properties until observed. The quantum world has been called bizarre, counterintuitive, and fundamentally strange. But what if this strangeness was never in the world at all? What if it was only ever in our expectations? Nothing Strange About Quantum Strangeness offers a radical reframing.

If François Rabelais were alive today, he would not be “problematic” — he would be impossible. His books would not be debated, contextualized, or gently criticized; they would be reported, flagged, algorithmically buried, and ceremoniously uninvited from public life. Rabelais laughed too loudly, ate too much, spoke too freely, and trusted the body more than moral panic. That alone would be unforgivable. Cancel culture, for all its modern vocabulary, is an old story.

Mathematics has long been regarded as the purest expression of truth — a language through which the universe reveals itself. Yet behind every equation stands the human mind that created it. In this book, Boris Krieger follows the path of mathematics from its simplest intuitions to its highest abstractions, asking what it truly reveals — about reality, and about ourselves. Through lucid reflection and critical insight, he shows that geometry, algebra, topology, and probability are not independent worlds but translations of human perception into structure.

This book explains why events in the world cannot always be understood as the result of separate things influencing one another locally. Starting from a well-established result in modern physics, it shows that some correlations observed in nature cannot be explained by assuming that each object carries its own independent properties and that all influence spreads step by step through space. The book examines the theorem that establishes this limit and the experiments that confirm it.

Modern cities are the most complex and fragile structures ever built. A single power failure can cascade into chaos. A single pandemic can turn density into a death sentence. A single metre of sea-level rise can displace hundreds of millions. But for the first time in ten thousand years, there is an alternative. THE LAST CITY describes a civilisation in which every home generates its own energy, harvests its own water, grows a portion of its own food, recycles its own waste, monitors its own health, and connects to the world by satellite.

Every parent, teacher, manager, and policymaker faces the same hidden trap: the instinct to protect can quietly destroy the very strength it hopes to build. In this wide-ranging and deeply personal book, Boris Kriger reveals a universal pattern that connects the anxious parent hovering over a child’s homework to the safety engineer constraining an autonomous vehicle, the micromanager stifling a team’s creativity, and even the laws of physics that govern our universe.