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- A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
- De: Megan Phelps-Roper
- Narrado por: Megan Phelps-Roper
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,203
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,937
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,922
At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy.
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Insightful, honest and engaging
- De C.B.E. en 11-28-19
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- A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
- De: Megan Phelps-Roper
- Narrado por: Megan Phelps-Roper
Wow! I couldn't stop listening.
Revisado: 02-03-20
I'll be thinking and talking about this one for a long time. Thank you Megan for your courage and vulnerability. At this time of such extreme polarization, I wish all of us could learn the value of doubt and the destructive power of intellectual and spiritual certainty.
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The Accidental Superpower
- The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
- De: Peter Zeihan
- Narrado por: Peter Zeihan
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,409
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,953
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,925
In The Accidental Superpower, international strategist Peter Zeihan examines how geography, combined with demography and energy independence, will pave the way for one of the great turning points in history, and one in which America reasserts its global dominance. No other country has a greater network of internal waterways, a greater command of deepwater navigation, or a firmer hold on industrialization technologies than America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DDD: Demographics Determine Destiny
- De Soudant en 03-23-15
- The Accidental Superpower
- The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
- De: Peter Zeihan
- Narrado por: Peter Zeihan
What about technology?
Revisado: 04-04-17
My last read was "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil so the rapid pace of technological growth was top of mind when I started into Zeihan's book. And questions about technology remained on my mind throughout the book even though the topic was rarely addressed. Zeihan does a good job highlighting how technology advances are/ will assist with the U.S. shale oil boom but says nothing about the topic when discussing human reproduction and death rates. A lot of his predictions are based on demographic changes and the assumption that older populations can no longer contribute economically. But what happens if life expectancy, and by extension, retirement age goes up? I know, I know - such major changes are probably further out than the horizon Zeihan considers. Nevertheless, I couldn't help but wonder if there were any books that combine the optimistic technological projections of Kurzweil with the geopolitics of folks like Zeihan. Regardless of my musings - I would recommend this book to anyone...it's well worth the time.
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