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Seeing Like a State
- De: James C. Scott
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
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Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.
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Beats a dead horse and then beats it again
- De Nathan Parker en 10-29-20
- Seeing Like a State
- De: James C. Scott
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
Learn how the altruistic utilitarian visions of human nature fail!
Revisado: 10-21-24
The author goes into detail how visions don’t meet on the ground reality and the dangers of that within, highly recommended!
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End Times
- Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
- De: Peter Turchin
- Narrado por: Robin McAlpine
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Peter Turchin, one of the most interesting social scientists of our age, has infused the study of history with approaches and insights from other fields for more than a quarter century. End Times is the culmination of his work to understand what causes political communities to cohere and what causes them to fall apart, as applied to the current turmoil within the United States.
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Boomer History
- De Kevin en 08-12-23
- End Times
- Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
- De: Peter Turchin
- Narrado por: Robin McAlpine
Tells the dynamics of history!
Revisado: 09-09-24
An informative look at how societies rise and fall! In depth analysis of the goings on of structural problems in society!
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The End Is Always Near
- Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
- De: Dan Carlin
- Narrado por: Dan Carlin
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin looks at questions and historical events that force us to consider what sounds like fantasy; that we might suffer the same fate that all previous eras did. Will our world ever become a ruin for future archaeologists to dig up and explore? The questions themselves are both philosophical and like something out of The Twilight Zone.
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Hardcore Histories Greatest Hits
- De Steven Glover en 10-31-19
- The End Is Always Near
- Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
- De: Dan Carlin
- Narrado por: Dan Carlin
An insightful look into how we might all die in ways you would t think about!
Revisado: 08-13-24
I loved the way the author talks about things that could kill us that we in the modern age don’t think about, for example how poor child rearing could kill us all, or the debates over conventional AirPower were moralized and justified.
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Escape from Rome
- The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
- De: Walter Scheidel
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 21 h y 35 m
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The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world?
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Very interesting book, terrible narration
- De Matt Griffin en 12-03-19
- Escape from Rome
- The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
- De: Walter Scheidel
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
Tells why Rome falling was good!
Revisado: 07-19-24
The book details why the Roman Empire falling was not only good, but also describes how its fall impacted everyone, and compares the trajectories of other empires to compare there similarities with the stagnating Romans. A insightful read if you ever wonder why there was no steampunk Rome or why China never colonized America. The answer are the same and can be found in the book!
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Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes
- Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World
- De: E. Randolph Richards, Richard James
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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Combining the expertise of a biblical scholar and a missionary practitioner, Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes is an essential guidebook to the cultural background of the Bible and how it should inform our reading. E. Randolph Richards and Richard James explore deep social structures of the ancient Mediterranean - kinship, patronage, and brokerage-along with their key social tools-honor, shame, and boundaries - that the biblical authors lived in and lie below the surface of each text.
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One of the most important books a theologian can own
- De Anonymous User en 02-05-21
- Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes
- Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World
- De: E. Randolph Richards, Richard James
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
Patronage and Brokerage
Revisado: 05-19-24
A fascinating look into the worldview of the time of Jesus and the cultural values of the East and what we miss in our everyday lives in the West! Shows the love of God from the perspective of those whole have lived it and continue to do so! Highlights what we miss as Individualist and shows what Collectivist understand about the Bible!
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Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
- De: Kenneth E. Bailey
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationship to women, and especially Jesus' parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead you into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus within his own cultural context.
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One of the best resources on Jesus EVER
- De Arthur Sippo en 04-21-20
Christ through Middle Eastern Eyes
Revisado: 03-27-24
It was fascinating hearing all the cultural things we in the west don’t think about and miss. This was very insightful and eye opening discovering the world in which Jesus knew.
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The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
- De: Louise Perry
- Narrado por: Louise Perry
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book.
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A feminist's advice to girls and young women
- De Wayne en 02-17-23
- The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
- De: Louise Perry
- Narrado por: Louise Perry
The truth of the Sexual Revolution!
Revisado: 10-05-23
An insightful look into how women can be manipulated in our modern culture to serve male interests rather then there own! Highly recommend!
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The Looting Machine
- Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
- De: Tom Burgis
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals, and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China, and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 percent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 percent of the world's population, its share of global manufacturing stood in 2011 exactly where it stood in 2000: at 1 percent.
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Frightening, Fascinating, Fatiguing
- De Scott en 07-29-18
- The Looting Machine
- Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
- De: Tom Burgis
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
How the Looting Machine plunders
Revisado: 07-21-23
Highly recommend, goes into detail regarding what is happening with the beginnings of our supply chains and the chaos and destruction that goes unnoticed there.
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The Fractured Republic
- Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
- De: Yuval Levin
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Americans today are frustrated and anxious. Our economy is sluggish and leaves workers insecure. Income inequality, cultural divisions, and political polarization increasingly pull us apart. Our governing institutions often seem paralyzed. And our politics has failed to rise to these challenges. No wonder, then, that Americans - and the politicians who represent them - are overwhelmingly nostalgic for a better time.
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Started out strong but finished weak
- De isaiah en 09-29-16
- The Fractured Republic
- Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
- De: Yuval Levin
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
How to de fracture a republic
Revisado: 05-19-23
The Author goes into detail on how a diffusion of powers from the national government to state and local levels, the removal of nostalgia from politics, as well as the reinvigoration of common communal concerns and values will help our republic survive in a new age.
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Albion's Seed
- Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1
- De: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 29 h y 40 m
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This fascinating audiobook is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time.
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This is great, much more than title suggests
- De Kindle Customer en 07-26-14
- Albion's Seed
- Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1
- De: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
Unfathomably based
Revisado: 02-22-23
I always found learning about different cultures and country’s fascinating, but I had no idea the depths of which my own country’s cultures were and how deep and integral role they played in our formation as a nation and its conceptions of freedom! Highly recommended!
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