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Human Diversity
- The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
- De: Charles Murray
- Narrado por: David Baker
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 229
The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas: Gender is a social construct. Race is a social construct. Class is a function of privilege. The problem is that all three dogmas are half-truths. They have stifled progress in understanding the rich texture that biology adds to our understanding of the social, political, and economic worlds we live in. It is not a story to be feared. But it is a story that needs telling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Purchase the Kindle version not the audio book
- De Wayne en 02-09-20
- Human Diversity
- The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
- De: Charles Murray
- Narrado por: David Baker
It was a statistical salad.
Revisado: 09-12-24
When I purchased the book, I was genuinely interested in the subject, the biology of gender race and class. I was only able to get 25 pages in before I could not take any more statistical machine-gunning. I just could not follow the reading. Every sentence was filled with factual figures from studies that I knew nothing about and there was nothing in the appendices to shed any light on them. I was not able to maintain a clear understanding of the text. I think I'm going to go back to Plato.
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The Satanic Verses
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 21 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,943
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,684
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,674
Inextricably linked with the fatwa called against its author in the wake of the novel’s publication, The Satanic Verses is, beyond that, a rich showcase for Salman Rushdie’s comic sensibilities, cultural observations, and unparalleled mastery of language. The book begins with two Indians plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their airliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Use an audiobook to really enjoy Satanic Verses
- De David Edelberg en 11-24-12
- The Satanic Verses
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
The story made no sense.
Revisado: 08-17-24
The book was a bunch of obscure unrelated incidents. I never learned what the verses are or where they come from. A waste of time and money.
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The Strange Order of Things
- Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
- De: Antonio Damasio
- Narrado por: Steve West, Antonio Damasio
- Duración: 9 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 337
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 280
The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Homeostasis and Metabolism give self awareness
- De Gary en 03-22-18
- The Strange Order of Things
- Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
- De: Antonio Damasio
- Narrado por: Steve West, Antonio Damasio
informative
Revisado: 01-22-24
What is the relationship between emotions, consciousness, feeling and culture. The author was able to shed light on these subjects to make them understood by the layman.
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Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bad Performance
- De Evan Baas en 10-08-21
- Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
Difficult to Follow
Revisado: 02-12-23
This book is divided into two parts. Part one reads exactly as the title implies; random notes that seem to babble. This babbling, I believe is cover for several moralistic bits of wisdom that could have been easily banned by the Russian censors and never been published. The second part reads like a normal story; much easier to follow.
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Notes from Underground
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original. This audio edition of Notes from Underground is the only recording of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of Dostoevsky’s classic work.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bad Performance
- De Evan Baas en 10-08-21
- Notes from Underground
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
Difficult to Follow
Revisado: 02-12-23
This book is divided into two parts. Part one reads exactly as the title implies; random notes that seem to babble. This babbling, I believe is cover for several moralistic bits of wisdom that could have been easily banned by the Russian censors and never been published. The second part reads like a normal story; much easier to follow.
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The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 521
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 457
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 452
The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology. In this book, "politically correct" theory is repeatedly confronted with facts-and sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a whole set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Absolute Masterpiece!
- De Brendan Martino en 04-04-22
- The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
Excellent Read
Revisado: 02-04-23
Filled with valuable knowledge that contradicts the Vision of the Anointed. It was a thoroughly enjoyable book.
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A People’s Tragedy
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 47 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 637
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 547
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 548
Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship. Drawing on vast original research, Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it, while providing the clearest and most cogent account of how and why it unfolded.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It would be 5 stars
- De Michael Polevoy en 01-31-19
- A People’s Tragedy
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
An epic read!
Revisado: 02-02-23
Very easy to read and full of historic facts. It took a month, but I finished it.
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Debunking the 1619 Project
- Exposing the Plan to Divide America
- De: Mary Grabar
- Narrado por: Liisa Ivary
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 126
According the New York Times’ “1619 Project”, America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independence, but in 1619 with the introduction of African slavery into the New World. Ever since then, the “1619 Project” argues, American history has been one long sordid tale of systemic racism.
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2 out of 5 stars
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the ultimate downplay
- De Stephen Alston en 01-09-22
- Debunking the 1619 Project
- Exposing the Plan to Divide America
- De: Mary Grabar
- Narrado por: Liisa Ivary
Boring and lacks enlightenment.
Revisado: 01-09-23
I struggled to finish this title. Quoted many other authors rather than conveying logical arguments.
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How to Attract Money
- De: Joseph Murphy
- Narrado por: Matt Ammons
- Duración: 1 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 144
It is your right to be rich. You are here to lead the abundant life and be happy, radiant, and free. You should, therefore, have all the money you need to lead a full, happy, prosperous life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Much Needed!
- De wisdom1st en 12-30-15
- How to Attract Money
- De: Joseph Murphy
- Narrado por: Matt Ammons
What money?
Revisado: 11-06-22
This entire book addressed mostly religious belief and how it solves everything. There was hardly a mention of money and how to attract it.
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The Economics and Politics of Race
- An International Perspective
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robert Morris
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 341
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 308
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 302
Using an international framework, Sowell analyzes how much a racial group’s economic fate is determined by the surrounding society and how much by internal patterns that follow that same group around the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting material, with not very good audi
- De Martin P. Rodgers en 04-03-13
- The Economics and Politics of Race
- An International Perspective
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robert Morris
Lots of historical and cultural references.
Revisado: 10-20-22
The narrator for this title was fine but there seemed to be a bit of background noise. The book seemed to focus more on cultural information than economics and politics. I'm a big fan of Thomas soul. I've read several of his books and this I have added to my collection.
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