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Moneyball
- The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,013
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,213
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,212
Moneyball reveals a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book, Outstanding Narration, Sloppy Edit
- De Dirk Turgid en 03-05-12
- Moneyball
- The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Great all the way Analytics Revolution
Revisado: 07-05-19
Micheal Lewis is always great, I'm not even that into baseball I'm a football guy. But the Analytics Revolution and strategic revolution rocking the college and pro football world has a prequel here in baseball.
It's far better to see the movie first, and have a better visual to go by. The movie , Any movie, can't tell even half the story of a book. The movie makes the As coach into a villain, which is lies. Paul Podesta refused to be included in the movie so you have the awkward and fictional personality of the movie. Just buy it, it took me only a few days of commuting and gym workouts and errands to finish this book. I loved it.
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A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 28 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,398
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,724
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,737
The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.
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5 out of 5 stars
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And you thought the twentieth century was rough...
- De Rob en 03-23-06
- A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
Catastrophically good!
Revisado: 02-16-18
I read this book 5 years ago and I just had to listen to its wonderful storytelling. Of a dark and terrible time; just when u think it can’t get worse...it does!!!
The Sham of Chivalry is exposed the problems caused by greedy elites. It’s a distant mirror indeed. They all act like Donald Trump would and boast like Donald trump does.
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The System
- The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
- De: Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 515
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 447
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 449
College football has never been more popular - or more chaotic. Millions fill 100,000-seat stadiums every Saturday; tens of millions more watch on television every weekend. The 2013 Discover BCS National Championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama had a viewership of 26.4 million people, second only to the Super Bowl. Billions of dollars from television deals now flow into the game; the average budget for a top-ten team is $80 million; top coaches make more than $3 million a year; the highest paid, more than $5 million.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping Inside Look at an Industry to Itself
- De W Perry Hall en 01-23-14
- The System
- The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
- De: Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
The whole story
Revisado: 04-14-17
An even account of the glory: what makes FBS CFB great and compelling....and the scandal that makes it and the book juicy. You should love college ball to enjoy this book.
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War of Attrition
- Fighting the First World War
- De: William Philpott
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
The Great War of 1914-1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world's great economies. Now, 100 years after the first guns of August rang out on the Western front, historian William Philpott reexamines the causes and lingering effects of the first truly modern war.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Confusing and disorganized
- De BMC en 08-05-14
- War of Attrition
- Fighting the First World War
- De: William Philpott
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
Decent WW1 book
Revisado: 07-14-15
While not a gripping account of the war, it's an excellent explanation for the character of the war.
Attrition. Body count. Material production. Courage on the battlefield is not a factor, morale is. The war is a meat grinder, and the generals who realized how to fight and win an attritional war, are the heroes.
The leaders thinking in outmoded terms of valour and élan...are the ones responsible for the worst decisions.
Offensives only work with a vast expenditure of material, mostly artillery shells, for limited objectives. The losses of 1916 are presented as achieving a great deal; they led to German attrition on a large scale.
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I Wear the Black Hat
- Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 940
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 835
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 828
In I Wear the Black Hat, Klosterman questions the very nature of how modern people understand the concept of villainy. What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don't we see Batman the same way we see Bernhard Goetz? Who's more worthy of our vitriol - Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson's second-worst decision? Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and limitless imagination, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the anti-hero.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Writer Falls a Little Short...
- De Nils J. Rasmussen en 08-20-13
- I Wear the Black Hat
- Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman
Still great
Revisado: 03-06-15
Funny and thoughtful, his writing feels like interesting conversations for intellectuals. What makes evil and why don't we remember bad things about our heros? Muhammad Ali turned Joe Frazier into a hated Uncle Tom , not a real black man, the tool of racists who is stupid and ugly. Ali went nasty and personal for no reason. Frazier had been his friend , had helped Ali in his time of need. Had loaned him money. Frazier came from a much more difficult environment; and lived among the disadvantaged, had more of a claim of 'keeping it real'. Why ruin Fraziers life and make him as hated as the Klan among Fraziers own community? Why doesn't anybody care today?
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