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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62,345
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55,758
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55,658
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
- Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
Can't say enough good words
Revisado: 08-21-16
What did you love best about Hillbilly Elegy?
Beautifully written and read, touching, informative, thought provoking - important for our country and communities to understand and act upon wisely.
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Islam and the Future of Tolerance
- A Dialogue
- De: Maajid Nawaz, Sam Harris
- Narrado por: Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,648
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,377
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,330
In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism, jihadism, and fundamentalism mean in today's world? Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this dialogue between a famous atheist and a former radical is all the more startling for its decorum. Harris and Nawaz have produced something genuinely new: they engage one of the most polarizing issues of our time - fearlessly and fully - and actually make progress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read for an honest debate on the topics
- De Andre Wallace Simonsen en 12-17-15
- Islam and the Future of Tolerance
- A Dialogue
- De: Maajid Nawaz, Sam Harris
- Narrado por: Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz
A deeper understanding of Islamism
Revisado: 04-01-16
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Excellent book - if you are thoughtful and want a better understanding of the risk of Islamism and jihadism, this is the book for you. Concise, clear - not pedantic.
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The Last American Man
- De: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrado por: Patricia Kalember
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 387
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 329
In 1977, at the age of 17, Conway left his family's comfortable suburban home to move to the Appalachian Mountains. For more than two decades he has lived there, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he has trapped, and trying to convince Americans to give up their materialistic lifestyles and return with him back to nature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad to Get to Know my Neighbor
- De Sparky en 12-28-13
- The Last American Man
- De: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrado por: Patricia Kalember
Entertaining
Revisado: 01-24-16
Any additional comments?
Pretty good story - sadness for the inevitable loss of a certain kind of (now, unneeded) manhood. Story of one of the last believers, part prophet, part huckster, part bully.
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The Taliban Shuffle
- Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- De: Kim Barker
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 466
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 407
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 407
Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region. In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to finish the job.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Warring Your Way to Peace Does Not Work
- De Sue en 09-01-12
- The Taliban Shuffle
- Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- De: Kim Barker
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
Very good
Revisado: 01-14-16
Any additional comments?
Good explanation of how it feels to live in a war zone - the initial sense of unreality, weird social dynamics, juxtaposition of humor and bloody tragedy - and the difficulty coming back to the realities of home. Entertaining and enlightening. The reader is too snarky for my taste, though.
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The Enemy at the Gate
- Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
- De: Andrew Wheatcroft
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 532
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 404
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 405
In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple", as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding 17th-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled with guns as the besieging Ottoman host launched bombs, fired cannons, and showered the populace with arrows during the battle for Christianity's bulwark.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Sad that history has become so politicaly correct
- De Anna en 12-08-09
- The Enemy at the Gate
- Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
- De: Andrew Wheatcroft
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
Excellent, timely, long
Revisado: 01-03-16
Would you listen to The Enemy at the Gate again? Why?
Fascinating...would not listen again but a great source of reference material
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Enemy at the Gate?
A great summary of the long enmity/relationship of East and West. Detailed history about military strategy and tactics - infantry, cavalry, artillery - very interesting for any military person. Do not dip into this history, however, without hearing the author's warning in the last chapter - this book raises questions, but should not be used as propaganda.
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The Water Knife
- De: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrado por: Almarie Guerra
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,021
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,617
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,609
In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get nothing but dust.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The fight for water in a drought fueled apocalypse
- De Lore en 09-24-15
- The Water Knife
- De: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrado por: Almarie Guerra
Too bloody
Revisado: 11-27-15
Would you try another book from Paolo Bacigalupi and/or Almarie Guerra?
Interesting premise, the narrator is very good...but there's too much graphic violence for me, I can't finish it.
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The Director
- De: David Ignatius
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,090
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 945
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 947
In David Ignatius' gripping new novel, spies don' t bother to steal information...they change it, permanently and invisibly. Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Weber isn' t sure where to turn until he meets a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet Operations Center.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just Flat Out Scary!
- De NOKWISA en 06-22-14
- The Director
- De: David Ignatius
- Narrado por: George Guidall
Okay
Revisado: 11-15-15
What did you like best about The Director? What did you like least?
Interesting story that brings in computer hackery, intel issues, and revolutionary history. Predictable, and the sexiness and budding romance is blah and unnecessary.
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Brainstorm
- The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
- De: Daniel J. Siegel M.D.
- Narrado por: Daniel J. Siegel M.D.
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 619
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 524
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 512
Between the ages of twelve and twenty-four, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging ways. In Brainstorm, the renowned psychiatrist and bestselling author of Parenting from the Inside Out, The Whole-Brain Child, and Mindsight, Daniel Siegel busts a number of commonly held myths about adolescence — for example, that it is merely a stage of “immaturity” filled with often “crazy” behavior — to reveal how it is in fact a vital time in our lives in terms of charting the course for the adults we ultimately become.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narration for kindergarteners...
- De Kalutha en 03-28-14
- Brainstorm
- The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
- De: Daniel J. Siegel M.D.
- Narrado por: Daniel J. Siegel M.D.
Not helpful
Revisado: 10-04-15
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
The first section was good - about 4 important qualities of adolescence, and how those qualities can add joy to adulthood. The rest: Not enough about teens, too much about "mindsight" - which seems to be basic observation and developing intuition.
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Early Warning
- A Novel
- De: Jane Smiley
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
- Duración: 18 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 120
Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- De Silvermomma en 05-30-16
- Early Warning
- A Novel
- De: Jane Smiley
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
Couldn't get into it
Revisado: 10-04-15
What would have made Early Warning better?
Too many names, too much dull narrative, I kept waiting for it to get interesting but gave up after about an hour. I'm disappointed - I liked Jane Smiley in the past...
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Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- De: Chad Broughton
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Story I thought I Knew
- De Meek84 en 07-08-18
- Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- De: Chad Broughton
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
Interesting look at pros and cons of outsourcing
Revisado: 10-01-15
If you could sum up Boom, Bust, Exodus in three words, what would they be?
Very interesting look at the effects of outsourcing manufacturing jobs - pros and cons for all involved, from leadership to line workers.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Boom, Bust, Exodus?
Learning the negative effects of expanding jobs from USA on community life in Mexico.
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