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First Principles
- What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
- De: Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 723
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 612
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 608
On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation's founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders' thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works—among them the Iliad, Plutarch's Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book, opinionated epilogue.
- De Noetic Seeker en 01-23-21
- First Principles
- What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
- De: Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrado por: James Lurie
A reminder of the basics
Revisado: 11-22-22
A solid reminder of the aspirations our country was built upon. It is a timely reminder that we can be better, and our very Declaration was written with this in mind. We were founded as a nation of ideas and called to better lives. We should remember those ideas and grow them in the world through our actions and interactions. Grateful for the reminder.
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Stolen Focus
- Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
- De: Johann Hari
- Narrado por: Johann Hari
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,930
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,533
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,516
In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needs a little sharpening
- De LEE en 02-01-22
- Stolen Focus
- Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
- De: Johann Hari
- Narrado por: Johann Hari
Rings true to the times
Revisado: 09-25-22
It is so important that we begin to wrestle with the impacts of our technologies on our ability to focus in helpful and meaningful ways. We do not want to alienate ourselves from the amazing tools available to us, but we also need to find ways to ensure that they remain just that - tools to move us forward. This book is an excellent start to the conversation. Well done and insightful.
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Half the Sky
- Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
- De: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 972
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 965
An old Chinese proverb says "Women hold up half the sky." Then why do the women of Africa and Asia persistently suffer human rights abuses? Continuing their focus on humanitarian issues, journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn take us to Africa and Asia, where many women live in profoundly dire circumstances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This unabridged book is abridged
- De Nancy Smyth en 08-21-11
- Half the Sky
- Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
- De: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
A comprehensive look at women's issues around the world
Revisado: 06-26-16
I am so glad I "read" this book. I very much appreciated the thorough information and the frank discussion of some very hard topics. I sincerely wish women everywhere, and the men who love them, would read this book. We will only progress as far as we support all members of our society equally.
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49,068
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37,886
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37,798
In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: That is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Engaging, but overrated
- De Scott T. Hards en 12-13-08
- Outliers
- The Story of Success
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
Fascinating
Revisado: 06-07-15
A book to turn everything you thought you knew about success upside down - or more correctly - right side up. Very well written and wonderfully narrated by the author.
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Mandela's Way
- Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
- De: Richard Stengel
- Narrado por: Richard Stengel
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 310
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 249
We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who recently celebrated his 91st birthday, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liberated a country from a system of violent prejudice and helped unite oppressor and oppressed in a way that had never been done before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved it! Well Read and well written.
- De Jennifer Elliott en 04-06-10
- Mandela's Way
- Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
- De: Richard Stengel
- Narrado por: Richard Stengel
A synopsis
Revisado: 08-15-12
If you could sum up Mandela's Way in three words, what would they be?
A nice review of the major lessons to take from the life of Nelson Mandela.
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Civilization
- The West and the Rest
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Niall Ferguson
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,352
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,009
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,991
The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years. All over the world, an astonishing proportion of people now work for Western-style companies, study at Western-style universities, vote for Western-style governments, take Western medicines, wear Western clothes, and even work Western hours. Yet six hundred years ago the petty kingdoms of Western Europe seemed unlikely to achieve much more than perpetual internecine warfare. It was Ming China or Ottoman Turkey that had the look of world civilizations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoughtful analysis of the ascendancy of the West.
- De Patrick en 05-25-13
- Civilization
- The West and the Rest
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Niall Ferguson
Very charming history of civilization
Revisado: 08-15-12
What did you love best about Civilization?
Great coverage of the major themes of Western Civilization. Delightful to listen to in the author's voice and accent.
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Lone Wolf
- De: Jodi Picoult
- Narrado por: Natalia Payne, Louis Changchien, Celeste Ciulla, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,180
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,761
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,773
In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it may sometimes choose to slip away. Dying apart from its family, it stays proud and true to its nature. Humans aren’t so lucky. Luke Warren has spent his life researching wolves. He has written about them, studied their habits intensively, and even lived with them for extended periods of time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Typical Jodi Picoult plot, chik lit but good
- De Brian PDX en 02-29-12
- Lone Wolf
- De: Jodi Picoult
- Narrado por: Natalia Payne, Louis Changchien, Celeste Ciulla, Nick Cordero, Angela Goethals, Mark Zeisler, Andy Paris
It's a Jodi Picoult
Revisado: 08-15-12
Would you consider the audio edition of Lone Wolf to be better than the print version?
This book was fascinating and covered a riveting social issue in Jodi Picoult usual excellent writing. Not a happy camper with the ending though.
What did you like best about this story?
The different characters were fabulous with all their eccentricities and very human-ness.
Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
The narrator's did a wonderful job.
If you could take any character from Lone Wolf out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Luke
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Spark
- The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
- De: John J. Ratey
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,908
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,395
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,367
Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Scientific and motivational
- De Roman en 12-17-09
- Spark
- The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
- De: John J. Ratey
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
This is your brain on exercise
Revisado: 08-15-12
Would you consider the audio edition of Spark to be better than the print version?
I LOVED this book. I loved the broad scope of it and found the subject matter very interesting. Turns out, what's good for the body is also good for the brain. I hope these ideas spread far and wide throughout our education systems and invade our workplaces. Dr. Ratey, thanks for sharing!
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Our Divided Political Heart
- The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent
- De: E. J. Dionne
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Our Divided Political Heart will be the must-listen book of the 2012 election campaign. Offering an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning the nation's political atmosphere, E. J. Dionne Jr., argues that Americans can't agree on who we are because we can't agree on who we've been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us Americans.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good points and lots of good information
- De Jamie B en 08-15-12
- Our Divided Political Heart
- The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent
- De: E. J. Dionne
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
Good points and lots of good information
Revisado: 08-15-12
Where does Our Divided Political Heart rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This book was full of information and insights which I found to be very interesting. That said, I am a huge early-American political thought nerd, and others might have found this level of detail and intricacy a bit difficult to grasp or at least be overwhelmed by all the little details that go into making what is a very nuanced argument. It might have been presented more concisely, but I like the book, I agree with the bulk of the author's insights and thought he explained it well and thoroughly and it was very well-thought-out.
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