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Social Justice Fallacies
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Brad Sanders
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 564
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 496
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 495
The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of what the facts are. Social Justice Fallacies reveals how many things that are thought to be true simply cannot stand up to documented facts, which are often the opposite of what is widely believed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Timely book by 93 year old Thomas Sowell
- De Wayne en 09-27-23
- Social Justice Fallacies
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Brad Sanders
Another Home Run for Sowell
Revisado: 07-15-24
I rated "Story" as a five-star because even though this is not a work of fiction with a story, the way Sowell lays out the ideas and explanations in this book could be equated to a story. Once again the author has demonstrated his unique ability to take complex subjects and explain them in ways that can be clearly understood. He did the same with his many other books, so it is not surprising that some refer to Thomas Sowell as a national treasure. The way he applies the difference between equality and equity and between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome makes makes the fallacies to which he refers easy to understand.
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Secondhand Time
- The Last of the Soviets
- De: Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrado por: Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, y otros
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 812
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 722
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 720
When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre", describing her work as "a history of emotions - a history of the soul". Alexievich's distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Heart, Soul & Iron Fist Of Russia
- De Sara en 02-22-17
- Secondhand Time
- The Last of the Soviets
- De: Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrado por: Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Kimberly Farr, Kirby Heyborne, Hillary Huber, Rebecca Lowman, Jorjeana Marie, Coleen Marlo, Kathleen McInerney, Fred Sanders
Russia - a profound explication
Revisado: 07-26-22
I have studied the Russian language, Russia and the Soviet Union all my adult life (several decades). This splendid work does an exceptional job of explaining Russia, it's culture and its people.
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Notes from Underground and The Gambler
- Notes from the Underground and The Gambler
- De: Constance Garnett - translator, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 47
Considered one of the first existentialist novels, Notes from Underground contains one of the most unsettling characters in 19th-century fiction. Resentful, cruel, entitled, and pitiful, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man is a disturbing human being bent on humiliating others for his own amusement. The Gambler is perhaps the most personal of Dostoyevsky's novels. Written to pay off the author's own gambling debts, the book follows the obsessions and anxieties of Alexey Ivanovitch, a sympathetic character who has given in to the forces of addiction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Russian psyche
- De Amazon Customer en 03-27-22
- Notes from Underground and The Gambler
- Notes from the Underground and The Gambler
- De: Constance Garnett - translator, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
The Russian psyche
Revisado: 03-27-22
This novella provides a very sensitive and profound explanation of the struggle of Russia, first under Peter the Great and Katherine the Great, to become a European country...and failing. Dostoevsky has, among all the great Russian writers of the 19th Century, perhaps the best understanding of the uniqueness of the Russian culture and its inherent value as it stands apart from Western European culture. There are many reasons for the uniqueness of Russia, perhaps beginning with the Mongol domination for about 250 years (1240-1480), but reinforced by centuries of autocratic rule of the tsars and tsaritsas and abetted by the Russian Orthodox Church. Not an easy read, but a worthwhile effort.
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The Fountainhead
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
- Duración: 32 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,030
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,694
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,718
One of the 20th century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters: Howard Roarke, a genius; Gail Wynand, a newspaper mogul and self-made millionaire; and Dominique Francon, a devastating beauty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Fountainhead
- De Zachary en 06-04-10
- The Fountainhead
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
how contemporary!
Revisado: 06-13-21
exceptional prose that seizes one's heart and mind. This book is even more pertinent today than the day it was published.
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