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The Story of Work
- A New History of Humankind
- De: Jan Lucassen
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 22 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 19
We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen looks at the ways in which humanity organizes work: in the household, the tribe, the city, and the state.
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3 out of 5 stars
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great history, horrible analysis
- De Michael en 04-12-23
- The Story of Work
- A New History of Humankind
- De: Jan Lucassen
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
great history, horrible analysis
Revisado: 04-12-23
The history is very interesting and fairly detailed. The analysis at the end of the book is a bit wild and can be skipped. Throughout the book he notes multiple times how the more control a government or similar authority had in planning the worse the workers did in the long term - while not stated explicitly it is very obvious. When workers weren't getting paid enough or receiving great enough benefits, they rebelled. Fascinatingly, entrepreneurship really started from the second food production was great enough to support non worker individuals (not always for beneficial purposes).
The end of the book devolves into the author just regurgitating and citing Piquity (spelling?) who is very at odds with the detail of the book. If the end were supported by his own work rather than standard academia talking points, it would have been much more interesting.
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The Scientist and the Spy
- A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
- De: Mara Hvistendahl
- Narrado por: James Lurie, Mara Hvistendahl
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 165
In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under contract with Monsanto. What began as a simple trespassing inquiry mushroomed into a two-year FBI operation in which investigators bugged the men’s rental cars, used a warrant intended for foreign terrorists and spies, and flew surveillance planes over corn country - all in the name of protecting trade secrets of corporate giants Monsanto and DuPont Pioneer.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Biased
- De Amazon Customer en 05-03-20
- The Scientist and the Spy
- A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
- De: Mara Hvistendahl
- Narrado por: James Lurie, Mara Hvistendahl
completely misses the point
Revisado: 08-21-20
The book articulates well how trade theft is done, says it could cause hundreds of billions of dollars of lost dollars to the US, and then does an about face and says the $1-2b lost from the current trade war is more serious.
Quite unfortunate misunderstanding if the facts the book lays out. Also, it is incredibly partisan at the end, I'm not sure what happened to the authors.
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- De: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 29 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what I bargained for
- De Alexander Crowell en 08-21-20
- Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- De: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
Incredibly biased and doesn't back up assertions
Revisado: 03-11-19
I've had to skip the first two sections. I've been fascinated by Japan and it's history, but this author's upfront opinions are painful and they seem to be conjecture with little fact. It's the equivalent of reading Mother Jones, Breitbart, or listening to AOC. I had to give it up after he said patents on new technology or drugs shouldn't be protected internationally - it's not fine to steal domestically, but it is fine to steal internationally?
I finally finished the rest of the book, which was quite interesting and seems to be one of the few fulsome books on the topic.
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