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Autocracy, Inc.
- The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
- De: Anne Applebaum
- Narrado por: Anne Applebaum
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 652
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 610
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 610
We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century, that bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are underpinned not by one dictator, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, surveillance technologies, and professional propagandists, all of which operate across multiple regimes, from China to Russia to Iran.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Triumphant Work -Puts It All Together With Laser Clarity
- De Sjhoffman en 09-19-24
- Autocracy, Inc.
- The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
- De: Anne Applebaum
- Narrado por: Anne Applebaum
Tactics and Behavior
Revisado: 02-05-25
The collection of tactics which is only concerned with power. The only value seems to be greed and more power. It seems like the goals of Capitalism for its own sake and glory perfect for psychopaths and narcissists.
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The Dawn of Everything
- A New History of Humanity
- De: David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Narrado por: Mark Williams
- Duración: 24 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,925
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,449
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,438
A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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exactly what I've been looking for
- De DankTurtle en 11-10-21
- The Dawn of Everything
- A New History of Humanity
- De: David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Narrado por: Mark Williams
Crediting our ancestors
Revisado: 12-03-24
Offers a different view of the development of peoples using new evidence to overturn doctrines of the importance of the “agricultural revolution.” Creates new ways to interpret human social development by looking at a variety of ways that this occurred indicating that different groups chose different paths even when the technologies using their human agency in reaction to their environments.
Our ancestors were not limited in their response to some sort of inevitable evolution to our modern state. It is an opportunity to see if we can become unstuck from our present paradigm.
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The Message
- De: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrado por: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,200
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,092
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,092
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic “Politics and the English Language,” but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bias
- De Dana en 10-13-24
- The Message
- De: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrado por: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jim Crow, Apartheid, and Apartheid
Revisado: 11-07-24
The interweaving of Jim Crow, Apartheid, and Palestine. Different origins but the same rationalizations and uncritical thinking based on narcissistic world view. Human weaknesses run amuck.
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Liar's Poker
- Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Michael Lewis
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,631
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,350
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,343
In 1986, before Michael Lewis became the best-selling author of The Big Short, Moneyball, and Flash Boys, he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to New York- and London-based bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years - a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally!
- De Anonymous User en 02-08-22
- Liar's Poker
- Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Michael Lewis
Craziness of the market and capitalism
Revisado: 09-12-24
It was funny, sad, and scary. When our society talks of letting the market decide and then you see how irrational the people pulling the strings are, it is frightening.
I wish there presented some ways discussed to make it more rational and human centric. It may take artificial intelligence to bring this about. I would hope that this book is included in the machine learning library.
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Laziness Does Not Exist
- De: Devon Price PhD
- Narrado por: Em Grosland
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 724
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 616
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 610
From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human way to live” (Cal Newport, New York Times best-selling author) that examines the “laziness lie” - which falsely tells us we are not working or learning hard enough.
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1 out of 5 stars
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An Absolute Waste of Time. Not practical at all.
- De Graham Austin en 07-25-21
- Laziness Does Not Exist
- De: Devon Price PhD
- Narrado por: Em Grosland
Starts strong
Revisado: 08-19-24
The book started well, but tended to go away from laziness to other phobias and shaming for being transgendered and fat shaming. Judge mentalism seems to be a broader category than laziness.
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Four Thousand Weeks
- Time Management for Mortals
- De: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrado por: Oliver Burkeman
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,122
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,100
Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Make TIME for this one...
- De Ethan Babbage en 08-12-21
- Four Thousand Weeks
- Time Management for Mortals
- De: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrado por: Oliver Burkeman
No try, just do, but don’t care
Revisado: 04-28-24
We are insignificant in the greater scheme of things. No use in trying, just do whatever you feel like, but don’t care. Don’t worry, be happy.
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Supercommunicators
- How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
- De: Charles Duhigg
- Narrado por: Charles Duhigg
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,576
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,397
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,397
Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Valuable advice and information.
- De Cheryl J. en 03-13-24
- Supercommunicators
- How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
- De: Charles Duhigg
- Narrado por: Charles Duhigg
Accessible theories that seem applicable
Revisado: 03-21-24
He does a good job of seeing and articulating the application of communication theories to the real world. His three types of communication aren’t that different from the Parent-Adult-Child of Eric Berne in Transactional Analysis and Thomas Harris in I’m Okay, You’re Okay. Simple to apply concepts that can be helpful.
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Of Boys and Men
- Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
- De: Richard V. Reeves
- Narrado por: Richard V. Reeves
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 999
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 862
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 851
The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood. Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue. Of Boys and Men argues that helping the other half of society does not mean giving up on the ideal of gender equality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Regretful of My Knee-jerk Reaction To This Title 😔
- De Hazel Winters en 10-13-22
- Of Boys and Men
- Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
- De: Richard V. Reeves
- Narrado por: Richard V. Reeves
Raising all genders
Revisado: 01-25-24
I liked the research supporting why boys are struggling. The backlash against women is alarming and will only make things worse. We cannot go back to the times where women were held down. We can see that nonwestern societies are still struggling with this situation. Maybe, the enlightened in those countries can bring about progress without violence.
USA faces a Conservative hoard who want to attack Women and force them to yield to men. Dobbs is the current angle of attack.
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Built from the Fire
- The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street; One Hundred Years in the Neighborhood That Refused to Be Erased
- De: Victor Luckerson
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 19 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his family joined a community soon to become the center of black life in the West. But just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood, laying waste to thirty-five blocks and murdering as many as three hundred people in one of the worst acts of racist violence in U.S. history. The Goodwins and their neighbors soon rebuilt the district into “a Mecca,” in Ed’s words, where nightlife thrived and small businesses flourished. E
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant and Moving
- De Peter Riley en 07-24-23
- Built from the Fire
- The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street; One Hundred Years in the Neighborhood That Refused to Be Erased
- De: Victor Luckerson
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
Excellent connecting the past to the present
Revisado: 09-09-23
The author does an excellent job describing how violent historical events can change trends in one direction with long term lingering consequences. The consequences have profound impact upon individuals and communities. One wonders what would happen if Oklahoma and Tulsa paid reparations to families. The amount of money is not that great, but the symbolism would bring hope and a lift to many who need to move on past this continuing injustice.
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American Holocaust
- The Conquest of the New World
- De: David E. Stannard
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 170
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 170
For 400 years - from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s - the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Most important book I never heard of
- De Robert Bourque en 03-16-18
- American Holocaust
- The Conquest of the New World
- De: David E. Stannard
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
Should Be Source for All American History Curriculum
Revisado: 05-28-23
This book should be used as a source for the understanding of American and European History. The evils of colonialism, the exploitation of people based on greed, violence, and racism is a sad commentary on Western Civilization and the human species. The use of religion, especially Christianity, to justify and motivate this violence is appalling. Man’s inhumanity to mankind should not be surprising because men strive to dominate and exploit nature and all that they see.
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