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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- Written by: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.
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Great book
- By KM on 2025-08-22
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2013-02-26
- Language: English
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Dumbing Us Down (25th Anniversary Edition)
- The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
- Written by: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen, Adam Farnsworth
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Throw off the shackles of formal schooling and embark upon a rich journey of self-directed, life-long learning After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected. Thirty years of teaching in the public school system led John Taylor Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling is to blame, accomplishing little but to teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine.
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Dumbing Us Down (25th Anniversary Edition)
- The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen, Adam Farnsworth
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2024-04-26
- Language: English
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Trauma Farm
- A Rebel History of Rural Life
- Written by: Brian Brett
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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An irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of the affectionately named Trauma Farm, with numerous side trips into the natural history of farming. Beginning naked in darkness, Brian Brett moves from the tending of livestock, poultry, orchards, gardens, machinery, and fields to the social intricacies of rural communities and, finally, to an encounter with a magnificent deer in the silver moonlight of a magical farm field.
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A very meditative summary of mixed farming!
- By Nathan Nychyporuk on 2020-08-08
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Trauma Farm
- A Rebel History of Rural Life
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-08
- Language: English
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Dumbing Us Down
- The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
- Written by: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Thirty years in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. With over 100,000 copies in print since its original publication in 2002, this book is collection of essays and speeches and includes a describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto's "guerrilla teaching". John Gatto was a teacher in New York City's public schools for over 30 years and was a New York State Teacher of the Year.
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Eye opening
- By Anonymous on 2020-09-18
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Dumbing Us Down
- The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2012-05-09
- Language: English
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Kinship with All Life
- Written by: J. Allen Boone
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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Is there a universal language of love, a "kinship with all life" that can open new horizons of experience? Example after example in this unique classic—from "Strongheart" the actor-dog to "Freddie" the fly—resounds with entertaining and inspiring proof that communication with animals is a wonderful, indisputable fact. All that is required is an attitude of openness, friendliness, humility, and a sense of humor to part the curtain and form bonds of real friendship.
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Kinship with All Life
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2022-10-12
- Language: English
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Nature-Based Therapy
- A Practitioner’s Guide to Working Outdoors with Children, Youth, and Families
- Written by: Dr. Nevin J. Harper, Kathryn Rose, David Segal
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The number of children, youth, and families seeking help for a wide range of mental health concerns is growing at an alarming rate, and many struggle to thrive despite well-intentioned interventions from skilled helpers. Unplugging from technology and reconnecting with the web of life is a powerful antidote to the highly technological and fast-paced realities of so many.
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Nature-Based Therapy
- A Practitioner’s Guide to Working Outdoors with Children, Youth, and Families
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-11
- Language: English
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Becoming the Kind Father
- A Son's Journey
- Written by: Calvin Sandborn
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The macho society that held John Wayne as a role model has created an emotional wasteland where 80 percent of men are unable to accurately express their feelings, and that same percentage feel estranged from their fathers. The stifled male, disconnected and out of touch, fills the void with apathy or anger, and the toll is staggering: short, unhealthy lives, ruined relationships, and damaged children. This destructive behavior repeats itself in the next generation as the sins of the father continue the cycle.
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Becoming the Kind Father
- A Son's Journey
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2014-06-02
- Language: English
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Harperland
- The Politics of Control
- Written by: Lawrence Martin
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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With another Canadian election slated for early May, 2011, Harperland: The Politics of Control, by Marin Lawrence, is a must read (or hear) before you go to the polls. "Harperland," the story Stephen Harper’s first four years in power, soared to the top of the best-seller lists in the first week it was out. Peter C. Newman called it “A book of revelations.... This is Stephen Harper unplugged.”
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Harperland
- The Politics of Control
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2011-04-19
- Language: English
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What Is a Human?
- Language, Mind, and Culture
- Written by: James Paul Gee
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In a sweeping synthesis of new research in a number of different disciplines, this book argues that we humans are not who we think we are. As he explores the interconnections between cutting-edge work in bioanthropology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, human language and learning, and beyond, James Paul Gee advances, also, a personal philosophy of language, learning, and culture, informed by his decades of work across linguistics and the social sciences.
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What Is a Human?
- Language, Mind, and Culture
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2022-10-25
- Language: English
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I'm Right and You're an Idiot
- The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up
- Written by: James Hoggan, Grania Litwin
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The most pressing environmental problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda, and polarization stifles discussion and debate, creating resistance to change and thwarting our ability to solve our collective problems. In I'm Right and You're an Idiot, author and David Suzuki Foundation chair James Hoggan grapples with this critical issue, conducting interviews with outstanding thinkers from the Himalayas to the House of Lords.
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I couldn’t stop listening
- By Jean on 2022-08-17
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I'm Right and You're an Idiot
- The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-30
- Language: English
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Made to Break
- Technology and Obsolescence in America
- Written by: Giles Slade
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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If you've replaced a computer lately - or a cell phone, a camera, a television - chances are, the old one still worked. And chances are even greater that the latest model won't last as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the world of planned obsolescence - a business model, a way of life, and a uniquely American invention that this eye-opening book explores from its beginnings to its perilous implications for the very near future.
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Made to Break
- Technology and Obsolescence in America
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2014-01-10
- Language: English
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Seeing Reds
- The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror
- Written by: Daniel Francis
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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At the end of World War I, Canada was poised on the brink of social revolution. At least that is what many Canadians, inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, hoped - and others dreaded. Seeing Reds tells the story of this turbulent period in Canadian history during the winter of 1918-19, when a fearful government led by Prime Minister Robert Borden tried to suppress radical political activity by branding legitimate labour leaders as "Bolsheviks" and "Reds".
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worth a listen
- By S. Parent on 2018-03-11
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Seeing Reds
- The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2013-02-27
- Language: English
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Werewolf
- The True Story of an Extraordinary Police Dog
- Written by: David Alton Hedges
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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WEREWOLF: The True Story of an Extraordinary Police Dog is the raw, first-hand account of the life of a police K9 named Brag and his cop partner. When they first meet, Brag shows no interest in human attachment and his handler is wary of caring too much for a dog whose life he must risk every night. But as the dangerous manhunts push both to their mental and physical limits, the two develop an unbreakable bond that blurs the line between human and canine.
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Werewolf
- The True Story of an Extraordinary Police Dog
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-15
- Language: English
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Shadow Warrior
- William Egan Colby and the CIA
- Written by: Randall B. Woods
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
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As a World War II commando, a Cold War spy, and CIA director under Presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby embodied the moral and strategic ambiguities of the postwar world, and confronted many of the dilemmas about power and secrecy that America still grapples with today.
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Shadow Warrior
- William Egan Colby and the CIA
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2013-09-13
- Language: English
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Cold, Hungry and in the Dark
- Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth
- Written by: Bill Powers
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will trigger a crisis that will cause prices to skyrocket, damage the economy, and have a profound impact on the lives of nearly every North American.
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Cold, Hungry and in the Dark
- Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2013-11-22
- Language: English
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The Nature of the Future
- Dispatches from the Socialstructed World
- Written by: Marina Gorbis
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives.
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The Nature of the Future
- Dispatches from the Socialstructed World
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2013-12-12
- Language: English
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Hard Hed: The Hoosier Chapman Papers
- Written by: Charles Tidler
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Hard Hed is a contemporary retelling of the Johnny Appleseed story. Hoosier Chapman, local historian and apple orchardist, has just been released from a Northwestern Ohio jail after serving two years for planting wild apple trees in a city park. Dropped at the State Line by a deputy sheriff, Hoosier treks west, overland and barefoot into Indiana state, recreating history and inventing myth, both public and private, along the way.
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Hard Hed: The Hoosier Chapman Papers
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-24
- Language: English
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Going to New Orleans
- Written by: Charles Tidler
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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Going to New Orleans is the story of Lewis King, a jazz trumpet player who lands a gig in the Big Easy. King is a genius on cornet, but his private life is emotionally, morally, and financially bankrupt. He's a heavy drinker and compulsive sexual manipulator, prone to paranoid fits of violent rage. His girlfriend, Ms Sugarlicq, can't keep her pants on. But as equally deviant sexual predators and jealous hypocrites, they're perfect for each other...
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Going to New Orleans
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-15
- Language: English
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The Arrogant Autocrat
- Stephen Harper's Takeover of Canada
- Written by: Mel Hurtig
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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Mel Hurtig turns his attention to the devastating impact that the Stephen Harper government has had on Canada, radically altering the democratic, social, and economic fabric of the country. He shows how Stephen Harper's single-minded pursuit of big oil and the tar sands, at a time when the world must take dramatic action to arrest climate change, has inflicted enormous damage on our country and international reputation.
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The Arrogant Autocrat
- Stephen Harper's Takeover of Canada
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2015-08-26
- Language: English
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Tenacity in Children
- Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success
- Written by: Sam Goldstein, Robert B. Brooks
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books. Rather, caregivers depended on the seven important instincts that evolved across tens of thousands of years in the human species.
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Tenacity in Children
- Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-02
- Language: English
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