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If Mayors Ruled the World
- Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
- De: Benjamin Barber
- Narrado por: Jeremy Gage
- Duración: 16 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 30
In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed.
The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes.
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1 out of 5 stars
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They read ALL the tables.
- De AC en 08-20-15
- If Mayors Ruled the World
- Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
- De: Benjamin Barber
- Narrado por: Jeremy Gage
They read ALL the tables.
Revisado: 08-20-15
What disappointed you about If Mayors Ruled the World?
They ready all the tables and there are a lot of tables in this book. There are not just a lot of tables, but a lot of long tables. Some take 20 minutes to get through. Its a completely useless exercise. Its almost impossible to follow someone reading a table for that long. This book is almost un-listenable for this reason. Its like having your book peppered with long interludes of someone reading (what might as well be) random words and numbers.
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David and Goliath
- Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24,485
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21,132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21,067
Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Art of (Unconventional) War
- De Cynthia en 10-04-13
- David and Goliath
- Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
Great!
Revisado: 09-16-14
What does Malcolm Gladwell bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Having it read by the author ensures that the essential points are driven home just as was intended.
Any additional comments?
Great stories, lots to learn, excellent listen.
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The Agile City
- Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change
- De: James S. Russell
- Narrado por: Brandon Massey
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 4
The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global warming - and blunt its effects - by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level can reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly. Adapting buildings (39 percent of greenhouse-gas emission) and communities (slashing the 33 percent of transportation related emissions) offers numerous other benefits that tax gimmicks and massive alternative-energy investments can't match.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I wish this was better.
- De AC en 09-16-14
- The Agile City
- Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change
- De: James S. Russell
- Narrado por: Brandon Massey
I wish this was better.
Revisado: 09-16-14
Would you try another book from James S. Russell and/or Brandon Massey?
I wish I had read this in a paper format. Good information but it sounded it like it was read by an old text to speech translator.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator spoke haltingly and put weird emphasis on different words that made it hard to follow and understand what was being said. The extreme monotone also made sure that most of the information was lost in the drone.
Any additional comments?
Read a paper copy of this book. Don't listen to it.
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Shadows in Flight
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card, Scott Brick, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,791
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,279
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,295
At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children—the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten—a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth's history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come.
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5 out of 5 stars
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OSC again conveys his clear insight into humanity.
- De joshua en 01-18-12
- Shadows in Flight
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card, Scott Brick, Orson Scott Card, Kirby Heyborne
Shadows in Flight
Revisado: 02-13-12
What did you like best about Shadows in Flight? What did you like least?
A nice continuation of the Ender universe.
What was most disappointing about Orson Scott Card’s story?
This story was too short. I know that this and the book after were originally supposed to be one book, but they should have kept it that way. Not much actually happens in this story and it seems forced at points. Also there is always too much talk about
Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
The voice actors in this volume are the same as all other books in the series which is a huge plus. All give great performances.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Not to the theatre.
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