Andy Shrader
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Play Nice
- The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment
- De: Jason Schreier
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 678
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 613
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 613
For video game fans, the name Blizzard Entertainment was once synonymous with perfection. The renowned company behind classics like Diablo and World of Warcraft was known to celebrate the joy of gaming over all else. What was once two UCLA students' simple mission—to make games they wanted to play—launched an empire with thousands of employees, millions of fans, and billions of dollars. But when Blizzard cancelled a buzzy project in 2013, it gave Bobby Kotick, the infamous CEO of corporate parent Activision, the excuse he needed to start cracking down on Blizzard's proud autonomy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just ok
- De TH en 11-17-24
- Play Nice
- The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment
- De: Jason Schreier
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
Boring and Blizzard don't usually go together
Revisado: 11-20-24
Maybe the topic was too big, but I really found this book dull, dull, dull.
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Searching for Harry Chapin's America
- Remember When the Music
- De: Pat Fenton
- Narrado por: David Amram
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
In Searching for Harry Chapin’s America: Remember When the Music, journalist Pat Fenton describes his road trips to the towns and people that inspired Harry Chapin’s most renowned songs. While Fenton’s account includes exclusive interviews with Chapin’s family and associates, and an excerpt from Chapin’s unpublished writings, the audio adaptation includes actual cuts from Chapin's best-known songs. Composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram, who narrates Fenton's chronicle, performs his own brief interludes of "incidental music", where he was inspired to do so.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I still miss Harry - this helps
- De Andy Shrader en 01-13-24
- Searching for Harry Chapin's America
- Remember When the Music
- De: Pat Fenton
- Narrado por: David Amram
I still miss Harry - this helps
Revisado: 01-13-24
This book is for anyone trying to understand what happened to this country since the 1950s. For anyone Harry Chapin inspired to keep going, keep slogging, keep striving. For anyone who loved his music at the height of his career in the 70s and for anyone who still lives it. This is a tour through the places and people Harry Chapin wrote about and, not coincidentally, a tour through what made America famous... and infamous.
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The Great Brain
- De: John D. Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 516
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 381
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 379
The Great Brain is Tom D. Fitzgerald, aged 10. The story is told by J.D., a sometimes confounded but always admiring younger brother. Such people as Mr. Standish, the mean schoolmaster, regret the day they came up against The Great Brain. But others, like the Jensen kids lost in Skeleton Cave, Basil, the Greek kid, or Andy, who has lost his leg and his friends, know that Tom's great brain never fails to find a way home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great choice for adults, too!!
- De S. Nelson en 01-25-09
- The Great Brain
- De: John D. Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty
Terrific audio rendition of one of my favorite books as a kid
Revisado: 12-29-23
I enjoyed the narrator's reading of The Great Brain with my kids on a road trip. I loved the book as a kid and was pleased to find such a well-done version to share with my own kids. We're moving right on to the rest of the seriess.
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Was It Worth It?
- A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home
- De: Doug Peacock
- Narrado por: Doug Peacock
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
In a collection of gripping stories of adventure, Doug Peacock, loner, iconoclast, environmentalist, and contemporary of Edward Abbey, reflects on a life lived in the wild, asking the question many ask in their twilight years: “Was It Worth It?”
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2 out of 5 stars
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I Just Couldn’t Keep Track
- De Paul Menard en 07-14-24
- Was It Worth It?
- A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home
- De: Doug Peacock
- Narrado por: Doug Peacock
Always enjoy hanging with Doug Peacock in my ear
Revisado: 06-07-22
Having Doug Peacock narrate his adventures as I take walks below the stars late at night is a enormous treasure, almost like he's walking beside me. I was signed up for Ed Abby's next creative writing class at U of A when he passed. I got to meet Doug Peacock reading from The Grizzly Years at a bookstore in 1990 or so. Then Terry Tempest Williams reading from Refuge, and I felt like I got my wildlife activist creative writing education anyway and have been working to live up to their amazing inspiration through wildlife policy work in LA City. Hearing stories about their deep friendship makes it even more special. Totally, absolutely, completely worth it!
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House of Rain
- Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
- De: Craig Childs
- Narrado por: Craig Childs
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 276
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 233
In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head-on into the mysteries of this vanished people. The various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th century to create a civilization hailed as "the Las Vegas of its day", a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, and a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. By the 13th century, however, Chaco's vibrant community had disappeared without a trace.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poetic Travel Log
- De Staci Adleman en 01-09-19
- House of Rain
- Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
- De: Craig Childs
- Narrado por: Craig Childs
Masterful Ancient Mystery Adventure True Story
Revisado: 08-17-21
Strap on a pack, try to keep up as Craig Childs tracks the Ancient ones.
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Falter
- Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
- De: Bill McKibben
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Bill McKibben - foreword
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 287
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature - issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic - was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: Even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De M en 07-18-19
- Falter
- Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
- De: Bill McKibben
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Bill McKibben - foreword
McKibben's Caasandra dilemma leads into high tech
Revisado: 07-17-19
McKibben continues his excellent forward-thinking on the dangers of our current tech and climate paths.
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The Girls of Atomic City
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Denise Kiernan
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,935
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,641
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,630
At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important story of this secret city
- De CBlox en 11-14-13
- The Girls of Atomic City
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Denise Kiernan
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
Gripping and Fascinating Atomic History
Revisado: 05-13-19
Loved it and terrific performance. Would like to know better how these controversial events affected the main people going forward in their lives. Also, would have liked to have a chapter on how each person's job fit into the greater whole of the overall project once it was publicly revealed.
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Clade
- De: James Bradley
- Narrado por: Ian Bliss
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 31
A provocative, urgent audiobook about time, family and how a changing planet might change our lives, from James Bradley, acclaimed author of The Resurrectionist and editor of The Penguin Book of the Ocean.Compelling, challenging and resilient, over ten beautifully contained chapters, Clade canvasses three generations from the very near future to late this century. Central to the novel is the family of Adam, a scientist, and his wife Ellie, an artist.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Book
- De Amazon Customer en 09-03-19
- Clade
- De: James Bradley
- Narrado por: Ian Bliss
climate realities to come
Revisado: 03-28-19
such an excellent job forecasting the challenges already occurring via characters you feel and know
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