M. Hoffman

Very useful book!

Revisado: 06-02-23

As an experienced educator I found this book an impressive consolidation of many areas of research. The authors have thought though so many issues and presented here a systematic path toward implementing practices that have long been understood to improve learning.
The narrator does a great job sounding as he were the author!

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Important work and well read

Revisado: 04-29-21

Lenin is someone who everyone has an opinion on but hardly anyone has ever actually read what he wrote. This audiobook makes a really important work of Lenin’s more accessible. My only complaint is the miss pronunciation of some important names that probably could’ve been corrected with a little more research. However I want to commend the performer on taking on the tone as if Lenin were saying the words himself.
The brief introduction is clearly meant to discredit the contents, but I’d you actually engage with what he says, it can not be so easily dismissed. We still live in a world where vast resources are put into violent domination of the majority of the population and our world is clearly controlled by a minority who extracts, accumulates and makes decisions about wealth that are not democratic.

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Required reading

Revisado: 03-26-15

Slavery is still relevant. Not only for the economic and social realities whose legacy we still endure, but because of the political and power dynamics its study elucidates. In this book, Frederick Douglass helps us understand the mechanisms of control we still see today.
It should be required reading for very young person.

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Masterful combo of economics, history, and prose

Revisado: 03-08-15

This is a remarkable book!! Baptist weaves individual slaves' stories into an exposition of the economics driving slavery's expansion. He makes a powerful argument that slavery was pivotal in the development of US and world capital, and was actually accelerating at the time of the Civil war.

The us of accounts by specific enslaved people helps to illustrate larger structural changes in slavery's development but helps you understand the toll these played on people's lives. It also helps to understand various cultural developments and slavery,s lasting legacy.

I wish I had read this in college! It would have made the civil war make much more sense.

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Wish I had this book before

Revisado: 01-21-15

Useful, intuitive and clear explanations of difficult and important concepts.
It's easy to follow if you have some familiarity with the subject, and worthwhile to study or reread sections if not. Textbooks are not this clear.

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A must read!!

Revisado: 12-30-14

This book is crucial for understanding the world we live in and lays an important foundation for the activism that is needed.

It should be required reading for everyone in the US.

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