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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49,064
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37,882
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37,794
In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: That is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Engaging, but overrated
- De Scott T. Hards en 12-13-08
- Outliers
- The Story of Success
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
This book changed my life
Revisado: 09-07-10
I was stuck in a rut as a croquet player. After reading this book, I began to understand that you don't excel at something unless a) you put in an enormous amount of time and b) you are in the right place at the right time. I followed a) and found myself in b). The result is that my croquet game has improved by light years. This principle applies to anything in life. Reading this book was an epiphany for me. Few books have impacted me in this way.
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Flatland
- A Romance of Many Dimensions
- De: Edwin A. Abbott
- Narrado por: Patrick Frederic
- Duración: 3 h y 24 m
- Versión resumida
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 281
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
Flatland, like our own world, is on the verge of the millenium. On the last day of the year 1999, a Square—hitherto undistinguished from the other shapes of his two-dimensional world—receives the Gospel of Three Dimensions, revealed to that world's flat inhabitants only once every a thousand years. Transformed by a truth he is unable to conceal, he is promptly condemned as a heretic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved all the concepts of this book
- De Brian en 01-20-03
- Flatland
- A Romance of Many Dimensions
- De: Edwin A. Abbott
- Narrado por: Patrick Frederic
Revolutionary Thought About Dimensions
Revisado: 02-27-10
Skip the first part of it, which is a thinly veiled discussion of the Victorian era. However, the book gets exponentially more interesting once the various dimensional worlds collide. This is a revoluationary view of the dimensions. It also serves as a basic framework for beginning to think about what the fourth dimension is like, and how we can recognize its characteristics before we actually figure it out.
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The Joy of Pi
- De: David Blatner
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Hank Jacobs, Laura Dean
- Duración: 3 h y 31 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 45
No number has captured the attention and imagination of people throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi is infinite and, in The Joy of Pi it proves to be infinitely intriguing. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, David Blatner explores the many facets of pi and humankind's fascination with it - from the ancient Egyptians to the modern-day Chudnovsky brothers, who have calculated pi to eight billion digits.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, if superficial and myopic
- De Sean en 05-06-03
- The Joy of Pi
- De: David Blatner
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Hank Jacobs, Laura Dean
Did Not Reach Its Promise
Revisado: 02-27-10
Got off to a good start, but then sputtered. Not enough explanation on how the number is actually calculated or how it's used in the real world. Too much discussion on trivial things, not enough on how this concept came about and how it helps us.
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