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The Secret
- A Jack Reacher Novel
- De: Lee Child, Andrew Child
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy.
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Reacher said nothing… worth hearing.
- De David in Texas en 10-26-23
- The Secret
- A Jack Reacher Novel
- De: Lee Child, Andrew Child
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Flashback
Revisado: 10-27-23
If you are looking for a Jack Teacher itinerant knight story, this ain't it. It reads like every political/powerful cover-up story you've read, with the spouse as the real baddie (plot twist, sorta). This not the Reacher novel you've become accustomed to. Yes, Reacher is lethal, and super smart. By setting the novel during his time in the army, it becomes almost a pure procedural.
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Woke Racism
- How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
- De: John McWhorter
- Narrado por: John McWhorter
- Duración: 5 h y 17 m
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Acclaimed linguist and award-winning writer John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric.
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Thank You
- De Withacy en 10-26-21
- Woke Racism
- How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
- De: John McWhorter
- Narrado por: John McWhorter
Religious Cultural leftism
Revisado: 08-09-23
Brilliant. As with any book, there are some "yes but" passages, but surprisingly few. The theme mag work best as a tight analogy rather than description, for example.
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The Second Founding
- How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
- De: Eric Foner
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.
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Excellent book - problematic narrator
- De Jennifer en 10-01-19
- The Second Founding
- How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
- De: Eric Foner
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
Everyone needs to read this.
Revisado: 07-20-21
We tend to forget the real sea change in American law represented by the 13th-15th Amendments - and the Supreme Court's evisceration of much of their force.
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Crashed
- How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
- De: Adam Tooze
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
- Duración: 25 h y 27 m
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Current events have deep roots, and the key to navigating today’s roiling policies lies in the events that started it all — the 2008 economic crisis and its aftermath. Despite initial attempts to downplay the crisis as a local incident, what happened on Wall Street beginning in 2008 was, in fact, a dramatic caesura of global significance that spiraled around the world, from the financial markets of the UK and Europe to the factories and dockyards of Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
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A vaccine against substance free deceivers
- De Gary en 08-19-18
- Crashed
- How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
- De: Adam Tooze
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
Superior
Revisado: 08-04-19
Superior discussion of the 2007-08 financial crisis and the following global and regional financial and political crises that followed in its wake.
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HATE
- Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
- De: Nadine Strossen
- Narrado por: Nadine Strossen, Angelo Di Loreto
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech", showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. We hear too many incorrect assertions that "hate speech" - which has no generally accepted definition - is either absolutely unprotected or absolutely protected from censorship. Rather, US law allows government to punish hateful or discriminatory speech in specific contexts when it directly causes imminent serious harm.
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Important Message But Repetitive Execution
- De ReaderTeacher en 08-19-18
- HATE
- Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
- De: Nadine Strossen
- Narrado por: Nadine Strossen, Angelo Di Loreto
Brilliant
Revisado: 05-02-19
How could a volume this thin and clearly written make such a complete and well-supported case for free speech? If you read only one book about addressing hate speech, this should be the one. It cannot receive enough praise.
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Farewell to Reality
- How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
- De: Jim Baggott
- Narrado por: Philip Rose
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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In this stunning new volume, Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental evidence for many of the ideas of modern theoretical physics: Super-symmetric particles, super strings, the multiverse, the holographic principle, or the anthropic cosmological principle. These theories are not only untrue; they are not even science. They are fairy-tale physics: Fantastical, bizarre and often outrageous, perhaps even confidence-trickery. This book provides a much-needed antidote.
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Not a Lot of Fun or Anything Else
- De Michael en 02-24-14
- Farewell to Reality
- How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
- De: Jim Baggott
- Narrado por: Philip Rose
Metaphysics and mysticism as science
Revisado: 02-04-17
If one cannot falsify, prove or check a theory empirically is it science. Baggott doubts it is. I think he is right. Listen to his argument (and parallel or similar arguments by Roger Penrose. Baggott asks a tough question: if testability or predictive power on what we see isn't a criteria, how do we consistently and persuasively separate science from psuedo-science and mysticism? While my first reaction was to dismiss this as fanciful, the more I thought about modern anti-science thought and how it can (and in some cases does) use logic similar or identical to some modern physicists to justify what itself as scientific or to argue that "traditional" science is not the only or best road to knowledge. Think through what Baggott has to say. One may not agree with all of it, but he raises troubling questions.
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The Constitution Today
- Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
- De: Akhil Reed Amar
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 19 h y 41 m
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When the stories that lead our daily news involve momentous constitutional questions, present-minded journalists and busy citizens cannot always see the stakes clearly. In The Constitution Today, Akhil Reed Amar, America's preeminent constitutional scholar, considers the biggest and most bitterly contested debates of the last two decades. He shows how the Constitution's text, history, and structure are a crucial repository of collective wisdom, providing specific rules and grand themes relevant to every organ of the American body politic.
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Amar is a Brilliant Arguer
- De MJ Schirmer en 11-16-16
- The Constitution Today
- Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
- De: Akhil Reed Amar
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
Amar is a Brilliant Arguer
Revisado: 11-16-16
Anyone interested in a careful scholar's view of the Constitution's relevance to modern life should read this book. I admit agreeing with the author more than not, but his careful scholarship and Constitutional analysis, demands respect.
The book will not engage true constitutional scholars, or so I suspect (their loss). Professor Amar writes with the informed and interested citizen in mind. But a political polemic it is not. Amar explains his understanding of Constitutional reasoning and in a series of overviews to previously published articles (and those articles), shows how ordinary voters can be taught constitutional concepts. He also does not take the easy out -- saying that all controversies have two equal or nearly equal constitutional arguments. For example, Dred Scott was wrong. While people defend positions and their arguments should be addressed respectfully and defeated decisively.
As a reader, there will likely be moments when you want to say "I don't think so" to what you are reading. Some of the arguments and analysis here raised my eyebrows or furrowed my brow. But on the whole, just about all of us can profit from reading this book.
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Tom Clancy Commander-in-Chief
- De: Mark Greaney
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 20 h y 32 m
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When Russian President Valeri Volodin's ambitions are foiled in Dagestan, he faces a difficult choice. The oligarchs who support him expect a constant flow of graft, but with energy prices cratering, the Russian economy sputters to a virtual halt. Unable to grow the Russian market at home, his hold on power relies on expansion abroad—a plan that has been thwarted by the United States in the past. But this time Volodin has determined that an indirect approach is the best.
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Great novel!
- De Wayne en 12-02-15
- Tom Clancy Commander-in-Chief
- De: Mark Greaney
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Clancy isn't totally gone.
Revisado: 03-16-16
A fine techno-political thriller. Largely worthy of the Clancy brand. But in this case, a few too many moving parts.
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