Charles Jones
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Allow Me to Retort
- A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
- By: Elie Mystal
- Narrated by: Elie Mystal
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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This is an easily digestible argument about what rights we have, what rights Republicans are trying to take away, and how to stop them. Mystal explains how to protect the rights of women and people of color instead of cowering to the absolutism of gun owners and bigots. He explains the legal way to stop everything from police brutality to political gerrymandering, just by changing a few judges and justices. He strips out all of the fancy jargon conservatives like to hide behind and lays bare the truth of their project to keep America forever tethered to its slaveholding past.
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Informative and Entertaining
- By Kindle Customer on 03-06-22
- Allow Me to Retort
- A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
- By: Elie Mystal
- Narrated by: Elie Mystal
It’s been a minute, but…
Reviewed: 12-29-24
This book is intellectually bold, original, and cheeky. The arguments are cogent and substantive. It’s still relevant. Add this one to your canon.
Peace!
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Women's Anatomy of Arousal
- Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure
- By: Sheri Winston
- Narrated by: Sheri Winston
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Join celebrated sexuality teacher Sheri Winston as she integrates ancient wisdom, lost knowledge, and modern sexuality information in a sexy, fun, empowering guidebook that illuminates every woman's secret paths to fabulous, orgasmically abundant sex. Whether you're a woman or a man who loves women, this book is for you! There's great information here, but that's not why Winston wrote the book. She wrote it to transform people's lives and support them to reclaim their erotic birthright.
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EVERYONE HAS TO READ THIS BOOK (WOMEN AND MEN)
- By Damon Gold on 10-25-20
- Women's Anatomy of Arousal
- Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure
- By: Sheri Winston
- Narrated by: Sheri Winston
A wellspring of valuable information
Reviewed: 04-03-24
This book is yet another reminder for people engaging in sexual activity with women to take their time and appreciate the womanly form and all its intricacies.
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The Vagina Bible
- The Vulva and the Vagina-Separating the Myth from the Medicine
- By: Jen Gunter MD
- Narrated by: Jen Gunter MD
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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So many important questions, so much confusing, contradictory misinformation! In this age of click bait, pseudoscience, and celebrity-endorsed products, it's easy to be overwhelmed - whether it's websites or advice from well-meaning friends, uneducated partners, and even healthcare providers. So how do you separate facts from fiction? OB/GYN Jen Gunter, an expert on women's health - and the internet's most popular go-to doc - comes to the rescue with a book that debunks the myths and educates and empowers women.
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Everyone needs this book
- By Michael on 09-01-19
- The Vagina Bible
- The Vulva and the Vagina-Separating the Myth from the Medicine
- By: Jen Gunter MD
- Narrated by: Jen Gunter MD
Must Read for Those Interested in Learning More About Women’s Health Below the Waist
Reviewed: 02-07-24
This is a good introduction for those interested in learning about women’s health below the waist. You learn everything from self-care of a woman’s sex organ to valuable information about intercourse, birth, menopause, and the nuances of vaginal microbiomes.
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Your First Million
- Why You Don't Have to Be Born into a Legacy of Wealth to Leave One Behind
- By: Arlan Hamilton, Rachel L. Nelson
- Narrated by: Arlan Hamilton
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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Having lived nearly her entire life below the poverty line before going on to attain wealth and success as an entrepreneur and investor, Arlan Hamilton knows that money is power—but not for the reasons most people believe. Money is power, she says, because it provides us with options: to pursue our passions, take risks, and change our situation in life.
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Not What I Expected
- By Anonymous User on 03-08-24
- Your First Million
- Why You Don't Have to Be Born into a Legacy of Wealth to Leave One Behind
- By: Arlan Hamilton, Rachel L. Nelson
- Narrated by: Arlan Hamilton
Rich, Actionable, and Motivational Content
Reviewed: 01-05-24
I’ve followed AH since her first book, It’s About Damn Time. This book as a follow up, does not disappoint. I was able to get an informative look behind the curtain so to speak of entrepreneurship and startup business funding, as well as wealth generation in general. I would highly suggest this book and her first one a well.
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Storyscaping
- Stop Creating Ads, Start Creating Worlds
- By: Gaston Legorburu, Darren McColl
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Marketers, technologists, and corporate leaders are looking for ways to more effectively connect consumers with their brand. Storyscapes introduces "storyscaping" as a way to create immersive experiences that solve the challenge of connecting brands and consumers. This book describes a powerful new approach to advertising and marketing for the digital age that involves using stories to design emotional and transactional experiences for customers, both online and offline.
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Worthwhile Read with Actionable Tactics
- By Charles Jones on 06-22-23
- Storyscaping
- Stop Creating Ads, Start Creating Worlds
- By: Gaston Legorburu, Darren McColl
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
Worthwhile Read with Actionable Tactics
Reviewed: 06-22-23
Many books on the business benefits of stories and building of creative practices in general tend not to be so actionable. This book was an outlier as it provided the reader with great insights that can be put into production right away. I highly suggest anyone interested in the topic to read this book for more details.
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- By: Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover
- Narrated by: Nir Eyal
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Why do some products capture our attention, while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? This audiobook introduces listeners to the "Hooked Model", a four-step process companies use to build customer habits. Through consecutive cycles through the hook, successful products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back repeatedly - without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.
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Great book, wish the narration was a little better.
- By Todays The Best Day - Dani Davis on 07-21-15
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- By: Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover
- Narrated by: Nir Eyal
Lots of Actionable Research on Human Psychology and Bevahior
Reviewed: 06-06-23
There are some books that contains reams of Insightful research but with very little discussion of how to leverage such knowledge actionably. This is not one of those books. There are many useful takeaways, not to mention the author’s website provides additional supporting resources. Even more so, the author makes a great case for healthy habit formation, as opposed to addiction, which the author notes is self-destructive, and ethical behavior design practices. But don’t take my word for it, read it yourself.
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Honeybee Democracy
- By: Thomas D. Seeley
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Honeybees make decisions collectively-and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making.
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Most Annoying Book Ever!!
- By Spaceman on 06-18-19
- Honeybee Democracy
- By: Thomas D. Seeley
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
A surprise and delight
Reviewed: 04-07-23
This book pick was a leap of faith. Fortunately, the book defied my expectations. The book had a public intellectual quality to it, not too brainy with several practical applications for improving decision making in human groups.
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I Was Better Last Night
- A Memoir
- By: Harvey Fierstein
- Narrated by: Harvey Fierstein
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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Harvey Fierstein’s legendary career has transported him from community theater in Brooklyn, to the lights of Broadway, to the absurd excesses of Hollywood and back. He’s received accolades and awards for acting in and/or writing an incredible string of hit plays, films, and TV shows.
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Loved it
- By Mary Ellen Guadagno on 03-09-22
- I Was Better Last Night
- A Memoir
- By: Harvey Fierstein
- Narrated by: Harvey Fierstein
This book was an absolute delight
Reviewed: 12-08-22
I had a sense of what I was getting when I pressed play. But in all honesty, I received way more. “Look back but don’t stare,” was one of my favorite quotes. I encourage this book to theater lovers, non-theater lovers, LGBTQ+, cisgender men and women, etc. Obviously this is not a book for children. But it is a good book nonetheless. Thanks for this gift Harvey.
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- By: Shoshana Zuboff
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. Rather, it offers a deeply reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization in the 21st century. The stark issue at hand is whether we will be the masters of information and machines or its slaves.
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Book Editors failed to trim the word count
- By Todd B on 07-14-19
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- By: Shoshana Zuboff
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
This book is a tremendous contribution to human knowledge about modernity and capitalism
Reviewed: 11-11-22
Where do I start?
There is much I can say about this text. But before I do, let me advise that this book is but a breadcrumb. To truly grasp the nuances, you have to have a solid footing of capitalism as an economic system, as well as a historical phenomenon. The author reference’s Hayek’s work, especially The Road to Serfdom, as well as the work of B.F. Skinner, most notably on operant conditioning, Hannah Arendt, and Erving Goffman.
Once you have soaked up the aforementioned references, you notice a carefully crafted argument for a new species of capitalism rooted in a seemingly one sided quid pro quo.
Zuboff sheds light on the extractive practices of what she terms surveillance capitalists companies. The resulting aftermath is a widespread disappearance of private space, and the mining of human reality for profit via lengthy website access agreements.
Even if you think Zuboff repeats herself or if you think what she speaks of is capitalism already, I advise the reader to do themselves a favor and give it a listen. The arguments are compelling, if not a bit unsympathetic to capitalism in its raw form. I think there is a case for and against the claims raised. But don’t take my word for it, read it yourself.
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Chicana Movidas
- New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era
- By: Maria Eugenia Cotera - editor, Maylei Blackwell - editor, Dionne Espinoza - - editor
- Narrated by: Tim Pabon, Maria Liatis, Maria Paula Bagnati
- Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
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With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era demonstrate how Chicanas enacted a new kind of politica at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and developed innovative concepts, tactics, and methodologies that in turn generated new theories, art forms, organizational spaces, and strategies of alliance.
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Beyond Empowerment
- By Susie Bright on 02-13-20
- Chicana Movidas
- New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era
- By: Maria Eugenia Cotera - editor, Maylei Blackwell - editor, Dionne Espinoza - - editor
- Narrated by: Tim Pabon, Maria Liatis, Maria Paula Bagnati
This book was a valuable investment of my time
Reviewed: 10-27-22
I enjoyed the text. It was rich, well-researched, and insightful. It’s nice to know that the fault lines of feminism are addressed outside of black-white binaries.
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