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Unreasonable Hospitality
- The Remarkable Power of Giving People More than They Expect
- By: Will Guidara
- Narrated by: Will Guidara
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,832
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,438
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,438
Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world. How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room—and memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Stratification What it Means to Be of Service
- By Amazon Customer on 10-31-22
- Unreasonable Hospitality
- The Remarkable Power of Giving People More than They Expect
- By: Will Guidara
- Narrated by: Will Guidara
Great book that was surprisingly applicable to my own work!
Reviewed: 05-29-24
Good examples and really got me thinking. Looking forward to integrating lessons into my own work.
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The Year of Our Lord 1943
- Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
- By: Alan Jacobs
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear the Allies would win the Second World War. Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic thought the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not culturally or morally prepared for their success. These Christian intellectuals - Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil, among others - sought both to articulate a sober and reflective critique of their own culture and to outline a plan for the moral and spiritual regeneration of their countries in the post-war world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The Audible is a Train Wreck
- By John on 09-04-18
- The Year of Our Lord 1943
- Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
- By: Alan Jacobs
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Needed Now More than Ever
Reviewed: 07-08-21
Excellent examination of the key figures and ideas. Shockingly and scarily relevant to today’s intellectual task.
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The Case Against Education
- Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
- By: Bryan Caplan
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 716
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 613
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 610
Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity - in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally, someone says what needs to be said about education
- By Brandon B. on 05-17-18
- The Case Against Education
- Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
- By: Bryan Caplan
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
A Compelling Case to Change How We Think About the Topic
Reviewed: 02-20-19
Dr. Caplan makes a compelling argument for why (at least socially) we need to reconsider our educational priorities. I appreciated his combining of rigorous data analysis with observations from laymen that we can all relate to. Finally, his care in answering good faith objections to his arguments were an important inclusion. I hope more people will read this book and come away with at least a slightly different view than when they started it.
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The Closing of the American Mind
- By: Allan Bloom
- Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 589
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 431
In one of the most important books of our time, Allan Bloom, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago and a noted translator of Plato and Rousseau, argues that the social and political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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VERY IMPORTANT WORK!
- By Douglas on 06-29-10
- The Closing of the American Mind
- By: Allan Bloom
- Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
More Relevant than Ever
Reviewed: 09-17-18
Bloom’s critique of the University provides an excellent backdrop to understanding our current mess. Unless modern reformers are willing to explore the roots of what’s troubling today’s colleges, they cannot begin to move things in a better direction.
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Suicide of the West
- How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
- By: Jonah Goldberg
- Narrated by: Jonah Goldberg
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,415
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,278
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,256
Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind’s destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Put some gratitude in your attitude
- By Amazon Customer on 04-25-18
- Suicide of the West
- How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
- By: Jonah Goldberg
- Narrated by: Jonah Goldberg
The Core of Conservatism
Reviewed: 07-19-18
This book should be the starting point for anyone genuinely interested in hearing the fundamental beliefs and assumptions of modern American conservatives (and many libertarians as well).
Jonah makes his arguments clearly (and I believe convincingly). Open minded readers of any intellectual or political stripe will find great value here.
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The Righteous Mind
- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- By: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,782
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,054
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,914
In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition - the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Why Good People Are Divided - Good for whom?
- By K. Cunningham on 09-21-12
- The Righteous Mind
- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- By: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
Required Reading
Reviewed: 07-13-18
An excellent book that can help us all understand each other better, even if that doesn’t lead to agreement.
Backed up with convincing research, Haidt makes a persuasive argument and offers some solutions that can, at the very least, help keep us from talking past one another. Well worth the read.
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