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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
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Not as advertised
- By Adam Chan on 2020-02-06
- Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
informative, but not useful, for the layman.
Reviewed: 2020-01-04
I was hoping this book would provide more of a conclusion on how to talk to strangers effectively. instead I see a choice, either treat people suspiciously and risk alienating them, or take them at face value and hope they aren't miss matched. it sure would be nice if there was a way to get people to respond in a more predictable manner that is also friendly.
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Why Honor Matters
- Written by: Tamler Sommers
- Narrated by: Tamler Sommers
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of honor has come at great cost. Reliant only on Enlightenment liberalism, the United States has become the home of the cowardly, the shameless, the selfish, and the alienated. Properly channeled, honor encourages virtues like courage, integrity, and solidarity.
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Great!
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-05-22
- Why Honor Matters
- Written by: Tamler Sommers
- Narrated by: Tamler Sommers
The author proved the opposite of its stated inten
Reviewed: 2019-10-17
the more I listened to this book, the more I became committed to abandoning concepts of honour, and that I SHOULD judge myself on merits of dignity, instead. the editing seemed poor, there were abrupt pauses, that seemed unnatural and out of place, which made the experience even worse.
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Tools and Weapons
- The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
- Written by: Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne, Bill Gates - foreword
- Narrated by: Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon.
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Loved it
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-10-04
- Tools and Weapons
- The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
- Written by: Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne, Bill Gates - foreword
- Narrated by: Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne
Loved it
Reviewed: 2019-10-04
I had just finished Public Record, and listening to this was a perfect next step. funny as I picked them up in reverse order. While Permanent Record recounts Edwadd Snowden's history and experiences up to 2013, Tools and Weapons covers much technological history and brings us up to where we are today, in 2019.
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Son of a Trickster
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Jason Ryll
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby) - and now she's dead.
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Excellent Story
- By sannna on 2017-12-18
- Son of a Trickster
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Jason Ryll
narration is garbage
Reviewed: 2018-01-24
couldn't get passed the first chapter. i can't stand listening to the narrator. book might be all right, but I can't listen to this. i cant really rate the story, because the performance is so bad.
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No Is Not Enough
- Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
- Written by: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Brit Marling
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed journalist, activist, and best-selling author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political shocks, climate change, and "brand bullies". From this unique perspective, she argues that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst, most dangerous trends of the past half century - the very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of white nationalism the world over. It is not enough, she tells us, to merely resist, to say no.
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Avoid audio version if possible
- By GATINATOR on 2018-02-03
- No Is Not Enough
- Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
- Written by: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Brit Marling
Essential need to knows of modern society.
Reviewed: 2018-01-12
everybody needs to at least know of the existance of these issues. Naomi begins to paint a way forward and what it could look like. We beed this to happen already.
1 person found this helpful
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What Happened
- Written by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
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For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.
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Theirs always to side to a story!
- By shelby on 2018-02-20
- What Happened
- Written by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
sounded like an encyclopedia
Reviewed: 2017-12-29
sounded terrible most of it sounded like she was reading an encyclopedia. its hard to believe this was a book about her recent history. there were moments she was passionate, and i wish she was able to maintain that energy throughout more of the book. while i was familiar with most of the campaign, there were things that I learned.