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Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- De: David Graeber
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,886
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,283
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,269
Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transformative to the point of being revolutionary
- De James C. Samans en 08-14-16
- Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- De: David Graeber
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Authors, anti-capitalist bias
Revisado: 04-24-25
A contrived polemic by a communist Cassandra. The author has read a lot of economic history. However, this conclusions in the last two chapters are neither credible nor viable. I sense that the author watched the movie the fight club one too many times.
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The Passage of Power Part 4
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Accomplishment but….Vietnam?
- De libertarian in recovery en 10-18-24
- The Passage of Power Part 4
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Amazing Accomplishment but….Vietnam?
Revisado: 10-18-24
I am in absolute admiration of Mr. ROBERT Carro and his meticulous research and biographical style. I’ve read his first work about Robert Moses, the power broker and found it equally as profound and educational.
I found the four volume work of Lyndon Johnson
Of equal stature and great accomplishment.
However, I think Mr. Caro has a duty to his readers to explain why he skirted the entire Vietnam tragedy and LBJ’s role in that tragedy.
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The Real Toscanini: Musicians Reveal the Maestro Part 2
- De: Cesare Civetta
- Narrado por: Cesare Civetta
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia2 out of 5 stars 1
(Amadeus). Lauded by Verdi, Debussy, and other music legends, the celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini raised the standards of orchestral and operatic performance over an astonishing 69 years on the podium. But as he did so, he acquired a reputation as something of a tyrant, who unleashed an explosive temper at musicians if rehearsals did not meet his expectations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- De libertarian in recovery en 08-03-24
- The Real Toscanini: Musicians Reveal the Maestro Part 2
- De: Cesare Civetta
- Narrado por: Cesare Civetta
Insightful
Revisado: 08-03-24
If you are pursuing a conducting career this audible book is a must! Intimate and Inspiring, humbling as well
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Lords of Finance
- The Bankers Who Broke the World
- De: Liaquat Ahamed
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,671
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,274
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,282
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades.
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4 out of 5 stars
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interesting insight into interwar period!
- De Toru en 11-27-09
- Lords of Finance
- The Bankers Who Broke the World
- De: Liaquat Ahamed
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
Great book
Revisado: 11-30-22
Great book great narration I recommend for anyone interested in economic history yes finished that’s all folks
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Kochland
- The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
- De: Christopher Leonard
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 23 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 747
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 640
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 635
Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how the biggest private company in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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An anti-capitalism treatise
- De Luis en 10-01-19
- Kochland
- The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
- De: Christopher Leonard
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
Spellbound!
Revisado: 11-08-22
I joined the libertarian party in 1983. I was aware that David Koch, Charles Koch’s brother had run as the Libertarian vice presidentIal nominee with Ed Clark for President of the United States in the past. However I was unaware how Charles Koch had shaped the Cato institute of which I attended in 1984. I recall hearing a Cato employee suggest that the EPA should be abolished. Myself and another guest at the Cato seminar were astounded by such a radical and shocking suggestion. Although, I agree with Charles Koch’s Fear that America is becoming socialistic and the power and virtue of the individual is on the decline.
However upon reading author Leonard’s book I agree that what Charles Koch has promoted is really fascism… The combination of Socialism and crony capitalism.
This is the second book by Christopher Leonard I’ve read in the last three months, the first one was the lords of easy money which was spot on in my opinion. I am looking forward to reading his book about the meat industry. He is one of the best authors I’ve read in quite some time.
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And the Show Went On
- Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
- De: Alan Riding
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 16 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
Alan Riding introduces a pageant of 20th-century artists who lived and worked under the Nazis and explores the decisions each made about whether to stay or flee, collaborate or resist. We see Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf singing before French and German audiences; Picasso painting and occasionally selling his work from his Left Bank apartment; and Marcel Carné and Henri-Georges Clouzot, among others, directing movies....
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4 out of 5 stars
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In Defeat, Shame, Sacrifice, and Subversion
- De Asarchus en 03-14-23
- And the Show Went On
- Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
- De: Alan Riding
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
So well researched
Revisado: 09-22-22
I am grateful to the author Alan riding for his book and the show went on. I think of the book as the description of the cross roads for western civilization in the 20th century.
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I, Asimov
- A Memoir
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom
- Duración: 24 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname "the Great Explainer". I. Asimov is his personal story - vivid, open, and honest - as only Asimov himself could tell it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This great book is now an unabridged release!
- De NM en 12-16-20
- I, Asimov
- A Memoir
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom
Thank you Mr Asimov
Revisado: 01-17-22
You said it all. You are like a father figure to me.
You are someone I aspire to be like.
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