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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,414
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,135
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,136
Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Apocalyptic
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-24
- Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
Every world leader should read now
Revisado: 04-07-24
Terrifying doesn’t begin to describe what is outlined here. The nuclear arms race is insane, wasteful and has gone on long enough. It should stop today by the United States leading without delay.
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The Deluge
- De: Stephen Markley
- Narrado por: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Gibson Frazier, y otros
- Duración: 40 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 348
In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t get into it.
- De Review Reviewer en 01-20-23
Outstanding
Revisado: 03-12-24
Yes - the first several hours is a lot of skipping between characters but it all does connect well. And the science and logical extension of today’s news seems very well thought and researched.
Recommend.
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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 66 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,657
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,095
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4,099
Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses—and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING read
- De jeff en 09-15-11
- The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
Wow
Revisado: 03-03-24
I don’t think I have ever learned so much from one single book. Absolutely brilliant writing and one of the most expansive research projects likely to have occurred for any book ever. Just fabulous.
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The Parrot and the Igloo
- Climate and the Science of Denial
- De: David Lipsky
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 18 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, bestselling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct one) to the other.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Depressing
- De Watch Hill en 08-13-23
- The Parrot and the Igloo
- Climate and the Science of Denial
- De: David Lipsky
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
Depressing
Revisado: 08-13-23
Professional liars lying for money and fame have been part of the American fabric of public debate for a long time. It’s sad and an indictment of our selves. We get the government we deserve.
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Don't Even Think About It
- Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
- De: George Marshall
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
Most of us recognize that climate change is real yet we do nothing to stop it. What is the psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshall’s search for the answers brings him face to face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists and Texas Tea Party activists; the world’s leading climate scientists and those who denounce them; liberal environmentalists and conservative evangelicals. What he discovers is that our values, assumptions, and prejudices can take on lives of their own, gaining authority as they are shared.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Watch Hill en 07-11-23
- Don't Even Think About It
- Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
- De: George Marshall
- Narrado por: John Lee
Outstanding
Revisado: 07-11-23
Points out issues and asks questions surrounding the lack of traction with the climate change warnings. Dives into the psychology in us that prevents all of us from really acting in what is undeniably coming.
We need a narrative that leverages our lizard brains instead of attempting to educate our primate brains. Less info and more appeals to the desires and fears of humans. But in a way that is consistent and proximal to our basic needs.
And John Lee rocks - as usual. I could listen to him read a terms of service for hours.
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The Three Ages of Water
- Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
- De: Peter Gleick
- Narrado por: Jonathan Beville
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
In The Three Ages of Water, Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our relationship to this precious resource. Water has shaped civilizations and empires, and driven centuries of advances in science and technology—from agriculture to aqueducts, steam power to space exploration—and progress in health and medicine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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tries to do too much and ends up doing too little
- De Josh en 07-20-23
- The Three Ages of Water
- Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
- De: Peter Gleick
- Narrado por: Jonathan Beville
Great science
Revisado: 07-08-23
Grim outlook despite the optimism in here. Here’s to hoping for the future he lays out.
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How Do I Un-Remember This?
- Unfortunately True Stories
- De: Danny Pellegrino
- Narrado por: Danny Pellegrino
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 531
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 466
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 463
Growing up in small-town Ohio isn't easy, particularly when you're a closeted gay kid surrounded by...no one openly gay. Luckily, Danny Pellegrino grew up in the '90s, coming of age when the internet opened up a whole new world for a curious kid itching for life outside of Midwest suburbia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Danny, my best friend
- De Amazon Customer en 03-18-22
- How Do I Un-Remember This?
- Unfortunately True Stories
- De: Danny Pellegrino
- Narrado por: Danny Pellegrino
So fun and Danny is easy to listen to!
Revisado: 02-28-23
This was so fun! I just loved it! Easy listen that made me laugh many times thinking of my own childhood!
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- De: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrado por: Jonathan Freedland
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 856
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 768
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 769
In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became one of the very first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and make his way to freedom—among only a tiny handful who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world—and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them. Against all odds, Vrba and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers, and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the first full account of Auschwitz the world had ever seen.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good
- De Matt en 11-10-22
- The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- De: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrado por: Jonathan Freedland
I rarely write reviews...
Revisado: 01-10-23
But this book is special. The story, the story telling and the performance are all top notch. Horrific content - not for everyone. But it's the best story I've heard since i listened to Unbroken years ago.
Should be required reading for seniors in high school.
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Nomad Century
- How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
- De: Gaia Vince
- Narrado por: Gaia Vince
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Drought-hit regions bleeding those who for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its biggest, and most present, consequences: a total reshaping of the earth’s human geography. As Gaia Vince points out early in Nomad Century, global migration has doubled in the past decade, on track to see literal billions displaced in the coming decades.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too many Horrible Things
- De Trebla en 09-01-22
- Nomad Century
- How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
- De: Gaia Vince
- Narrado por: Gaia Vince
Great listen
Revisado: 10-26-22
If you are interested in thinking more deeply about climate migration, this is a great place to start. Some ideas may seem far fetched but likely not. Her analysis of where we will be with respect to temps are inline with others I’ve read and heard. And her suggested outcomes just seem to follow from those predictions rather than be wild guesses or ideological.
Solid work. Lots of work to do.
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Hiding in Plain Sight
- The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
- De: Sarah Kendzior
- Narrado por: Sarah Kendzior
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 998
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 996
The story of Donald Trump’s rise to power is the story of a buried American history - buried because people in power liked it that way. It was visible without being seen, influential without being named, ubiquitous without being overt. Sarah Kendzior’s Hiding in Plain Sight pulls back the veil on a history spanning decades, a history of an American autocrat in the making. In doing so, she reveals how our continual loss of freedom, the rise of consolidated corruption, and the secrets behind a burgeoning autocratic United States have been hiding in plain sight for decades.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as she thinks it is
- De Douglas A. Greenberg en 05-01-20
- Hiding in Plain Sight
- The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
- De: Sarah Kendzior
- Narrado por: Sarah Kendzior
Great insight, hard to follow sometimes
Revisado: 10-19-20
Obviously she’s smart, thoughtful and empathetic. Easy to listen to. But sometimes the chapters seem to meander into one another. Not flow. Still a great listen.
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