Tiffany Rose Mitchell
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Small Animals
- Parenthood in the Age of Fear
- By: Kim Brooks
- Narrated by: Kim Brooks
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Small Animals is a riveting examination of the ways our culture of competitive, anxious, and judgmental parenting has profoundly altered the experiences of parents and children. In her signature style - by turns funny, penetrating, and always illuminating - which has dazzled millions of fans and been called "striking" by the New York Times Book Review and "beautiful" by the National Book Critics Circle, Brooks offers a provocative, compelling portrait of parenthood in America and calls us to examine what we most value in our relationships with our children and one another.
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Cover is good some of the story is captivating.
- By david on 02-09-21
- Small Animals
- Parenthood in the Age of Fear
- By: Kim Brooks
- Narrated by: Kim Brooks
Eye Opening!
Reviewed: 09-17-18
I enjoyed this book. I think every parent has had a moment when they think "It was differentbl when I was younger." I think my mother would have received many CPS visits for allowing us to walk to the park alone, stand on the bus stop alone, go to the grocery store alone, and sit in a car (with the windows down) alone. This book brings all of these things to light. What are we protecting our children from? And in an effort to protect them, are we limiting their childhood and their ability to just be kids.
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College (Un)Bound
- The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
- By: Jeffrey J. Selingo
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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What is the value of a college degree? The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that higher education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and unemployment of college graduates at historic highs, people are beginning to question that value. In College (Un)Bound, Jeffrey J. Selingo, editor at large of the Chronicle of Higher Education, argues that America’s higher education system is broken.
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Interesting anecdotes but unclear thesis
- By EmilyK on 08-08-15
- College (Un)Bound
- The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
- By: Jeffrey J. Selingo
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
Thought provoking!
Reviewed: 08-06-18
This book does a good job of putting costs vs rewards into perspective. I enjoyed the stories of different students - how some tried and failed the traditional college route, some succeeded albeit heavily in debt, and he discussed alternatives that. I liked his writing style and the audiobook narrator.
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Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- By: John Carreyrou
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion.
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Extreme retaliation against former employees
- By LEE on 05-29-18
- Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- By: John Carreyrou
- Narrated by: Will Damron
Great!
Reviewed: 06-22-18
This is a great book! It is thouroughly researched and very detailed. The author makes the science of blood testing easy to understand. The story of the rise and fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes reads like a fiction novel, it seems too evil to be true.
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Brainwashed
- How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
- By: Ben Shapiro, David Limbaugh - foreword
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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When parents send their children off to college, Mom and Dad hope they'll return more cultivated, knowledgeable, and astute - able to see issues from all points of view. But, according to Ben Shapiro, there's only one view allowed on most college campuses: a rabid brand of liberalism that must be swallowed hook, line, and sinker.
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fine audiobook that does a good job of capturing bens style, can’t make up for terrible book
- By Matt on 08-28-20
- Brainwashed
- How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
- By: Ben Shapiro, David Limbaugh - foreword
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
Eye opening!
Reviewed: 05-22-18
I enjoyed this book, it was informative, eye opening and concerning. I had no idea some of these things were happening on campuses throughout the US.
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The Death and Life of the Great American School System
- How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
- By: Diane Ravitch
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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In this best-selling expose of national policy gone wrong, America's foremost historian of education, Diane Ravitch, renounces her support for reform policies implemented over the past decade that she says are wrecking America's cherished tradition of public education.
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Good content excellent narrator
- By NYNM on 05-14-12
- The Death and Life of the Great American School System
- How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
- By: Diane Ravitch
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Informative!
Reviewed: 03-28-18
I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook, it was very informative and I learned a lot.
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