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The Teenage Brain
- A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
- De: Frances E. Jensen, Amy Ellis Nutt
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert, Frances E. Jensen
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 985
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 973
Drawing on her research, knowledge, and clinical experience, internationally respected neurologist--and mother of two boys--Frances E. Jensen, MD, offers a revolutionary look at the adolescent brain, providing remarkable insights that translate into practical advice both for parents and teenagers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Preachy and Uninformative
- De endlessemma en 05-16-16
- The Teenage Brain
- A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
- De: Frances E. Jensen, Amy Ellis Nutt
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert, Frances E. Jensen
Preachy and Uninformative
Revisado: 05-16-16
A lot of self-congratulations in this book, and a lot of reassurance that teenagers aren't an alien species. Yes, we get it. They are not aliens.
If you've heard her interview with Teri Gross (on FreshAir), there's no more scientific content in the book. You've heard it all - and for free. Don't waste time and credits on this one.
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Geek Heresy
- Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology
- De: Kentaro Toyama
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 26
In 2004 Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. But after a decade of designing technologies for humanitarian causes, Toyama concluded that no technology, however dazzling, could cause social change on its own.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not bad for a few chapters
- De endlessemma en 01-23-16
- Geek Heresy
- Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology
- De: Kentaro Toyama
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
Not bad for a few chapters
Revisado: 01-23-16
A book with one good idea but it tries to spin it out over many many chapters. Lots of example stories that get redundant. The tone is really self-congratulatory and that gets tired after a few chapters.
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Kushiel's Scion
- De: Jacqueline Carey
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 27 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,056
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 865
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 862
Imriel de la Courcel's birth parents are history's most reviled traitors, but his adoptive parents, the Comtesse Phedre and the warrior-priest Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions. Stolen, tortured, and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now a Prince of the Blood; third in line for the throne in a land that revels in art, beauty and desire. It is a court steeped in deeply laid conspiracies - and there are many who would see the young prince dead.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The wrong narrator
- De Amazon Customer en 05-27-11
- Kushiel's Scion
- De: Jacqueline Carey
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
swallowing the names of the main characters
Revisado: 01-23-16
I started this after the Kushiel's Dart series, so I knew that the voices would be different in this new series with a new narrator. But the narrator adopts a very bad french accents and pronunciation during the names of characters and places. Especially with the names that end in "dre" - Isondre, Pheadre, etc. I do understand that Terre D'Ange is imagined to geographically be in France, but those names sound so uncomfortable. I wince whenever the text uses those words. It sounds like he's trying to roll the "r" but doesn't get there and sounds sort of muffled instead.
Additionally, the dialogue is read half in a french accent and half not, not always consistent with the characters.
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
- Revisioning American History
- De: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,003
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,994
Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Useful information, not quite listenable
- De endlessemma en 08-03-15
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
- Revisioning American History
- De: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
Useful information, not quite listenable
Revisado: 08-03-15
I know some about settler colonialism and the genocidal practices of the U.S. against Native Americans, but I don't know enough. This book would have made an excellent textbook in an introductory Indigenous Studies course - lots of specific information, an authoritative tone, good discussions of methodology. As an audiobook, though, there wasn't enough story to really gain traction. Without characters or even units on specific groups or regions to hang all this new information on, I was left floundering in a sea of genocide and horrors. Probably much like early indigenous communities...
The narrator did not help this much. Every sentence is read with the same urgency and earnestness. All facts are equally weighted. There's no vocal signaling that we have reached the middle or end of any story. I understand that the topic is very serious and important, but I can't really hang onto the topic when there's no variation in the tone.
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Sex at the Margins
- Migration, Labour Markets, and the Rescue Industry
- De: Laura Agustin
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín argues that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' disempowers them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Who is this guy?!?!
- De endlessemma en 04-25-14
- Sex at the Margins
- Migration, Labour Markets, and the Rescue Industry
- De: Laura Agustin
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
Who is this guy?!?!
Revisado: 04-25-14
I am sure that this is a great book. I have read related works (most recently "sex slaves and discourse masters"), and was very excited to be able to download this one in audio format. But the narrator is terrible! So bad I couldn't listen to more than 10 minutes. He sounds like a robot giving a lecture on Hamlet. Totally removes any feeling and personality from the prose, instead substituting a sort of cold pretension.
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