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Four Thousand Weeks
- Time Management for Mortals
- De: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrado por: Oliver Burkeman
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,129
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,108
Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Make TIME for this one...
- De Ethan Babbage en 08-12-21
- Four Thousand Weeks
- Time Management for Mortals
- De: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrado por: Oliver Burkeman
Beautiful writing with delightful marration!
Revisado: 02-15-24
A vital topic for our times (and for all times), beautifully written by an author who genuinely cares about how well he, and you, and any of us experience living our amazing yet inevitably brief lives. Reading and enjoying this book is a gift to give yourself....now.
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- De: Tamim Ansary
- Narrado por: Tamim Ansary
- Duración: 17 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 444
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 384
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 381
Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic (battles won), geographic (farmers thrive), or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative. Many thousands of years ago, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness, we began inventing stories - to organize for survival, to find purpose and meaning, to explain the unfathomable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relaxed but packed with insight
- De Tad Davis en 02-14-20
- The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- De: Tamim Ansary
- Narrado por: Tamim Ansary
A spectacular book on human history
Revisado: 03-11-20
Brilliantly combines vast range and depth with clear expression of fundamental truths about human life. We build our worlds and traditions in language, blending, merging and evolving across the arc of history, and into the future. A brilliant read and highly recommended. (Great narration by the author brings his enjoyable writing style even more to life.)
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Has the West Lost It?
- A Provocation
- De: Kishore Mahbubani
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 2 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 54
Penguin Audio presents Has the West Lost It? by Kishore Mahbubani, read by Jonathan Keeble. The West's centuries-old status as the centre of global wealth and power is coming to an end. As the new powers - China and India from Asia and others from Africa and Latin America - rise to the top of the world's pecking order, how should the West react?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptionally well written for Western readers
- De Ron Kaufman en 06-02-18
- Has the West Lost It?
- A Provocation
- De: Kishore Mahbubani
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
Exceptionally well written for Western readers
Revisado: 06-02-18
This is a timely, well-researched, and passionately written provocation, especially important for Western readers with a concern and genuine commitment towards global well-being.
Contributions to global development nurtured in the Western world are undeniable: market economies, technological advances, democratic principles, and much more. However, the expansion of these phenomenon do not translate into historic inevitability, conceptual domination, or continuous social improvement in our rapidly changing world.
"Has the West Lost It?" challenges readers to appreciate the emergence of a more pluralistic human civilization, and the consequences of arrogance, hubris, and willful blindness on a planet that we, and future generations, must share.
Mahbubani's perspective is deeply informed by decades of personal responsibility and professional commitment as a global diplomat (Singapore's ambassador to the United Nations) and professor and academic dean (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy). As a prolific editorial writer, he blends a writer's literary gift and a policy-marker's comfort with data into a persuasive call for mutual respect, rule of law, and pragmatic optimism towards the future.
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