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Conspiracy
- Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
- By: Michael Shermer
- Narrated by: Michael Shermer
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 143
Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them. Trust in conspiracy theories, he writes, cuts across gender, age, race, income, education level, occupational status—and even political affiliation. One reason that people believe these conspiracies, Shermer argues, is that enough of them are real that we should be constructively conspiratorial. But Shermer reveals that other factors are also in play: anxiety and a sense of loss of control, as well as certain personality traits.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Shermer's Books Are Getting Less Good
- By HisNameWasBruce on 11-30-22
- Conspiracy
- Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
- By: Michael Shermer
- Narrated by: Michael Shermer
Good material ruined by the author's own bias
Reviewed: 09-30-24
This book was barely readable. Mostly it was ruined by the author's TDS, liberal bias and lack of self awareness. The author critques argument from authority, but then in parts of the book relies on that technique.
Oh and nothing ruins your 'crazy conspiracy people are just so dumb' book as citing conspiracy theories that turned out to be true. Best to pick examples of things that have been around long enough to be confident that all relevant evidence is out there. Also the author trashes their reputation by claiming 'fact checkers" are some independent impartial truth seekers.
If you want to read this author, get one of his other books. Besides, there was nothing substantial and new in this book that's not in the author's other books.
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The Square and the Tower
- Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
- By: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4 out of 5 stars 35
What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From the global best-selling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of looking at the world. Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks-leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome interesting book, but the narrator pronounced so many things wrong!
- By Jan Sapper on 04-20-18
- The Square and the Tower
- Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
- By: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
Not the author's best work
Reviewed: 08-02-24
This book was horrible! it was nothing more than an aimless meandering through trivia that I believe was meant to be case studies but precisely what they revealed about the author's thesis was never clear. The book was also ruined by the author's TDS, complete with Russia Russia Russia and social media being presented as both good and bad. The peak TDS was how Clinton breaking the law with her private server hurting her in the election was somehow malice on Trump's part.
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1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated)
- The Year Civilization Collapsed
- By: Eric H. Cline
- Narrated by: Eric H. Cline
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 713
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 620
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 619
This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and best-selling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Look past the one-star reviews: this is an enlightening and engaging read.
- By Alonzo Nightjar on 03-07-22
- 1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated)
- The Year Civilization Collapsed
- By: Eric H. Cline
- Narrated by: Eric H. Cline
Pure Rambling
Reviewed: 11-12-22
It's really just a bunch of trivia that completely obscures the authors theory. Really it seems like a theory that could have been explained in an article but a bunch of useless trivia is used as filler to fake it into a book.
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The Fourth Turning
- An American Prophecy
- By: William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Narrated by: William Strauss, Tom Parks, Neil Howe
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,474
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,678
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,668
First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Authors take a "short" view of history
- By GiniO on 03-02-17
- The Fourth Turning
- An American Prophecy
- By: William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Narrated by: William Strauss, Tom Parks, Neil Howe
well that turned out wrong
Reviewed: 11-07-22
The book couldn't have got the baby boomers and millennials more wrong post 1990s. The main theory fails to take into account external influence on a country. and as for evidence of the theory, it would have been more convincing if they provided evidence of similar patterns in any other country's history.
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History of Eastern Europe
- A Captivating Guide to a Shortened History of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Moldova, Belarus, and Romania
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jay Herbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4 out of 5 stars 60
The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and fall of states and empires. The ancient Greek and Roman empires knew the importance of Eastern Europe for trade and settlement. The medieval period would see some of the greatest empires of European history, like Kievan Rus, the Bulgarian Empire, Serbia, and the German Crusader states. By the early modern period, these great states would be replaced by Russia, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Ottoman Empire.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Disappointing
- By Amazon Customer on 03-31-22
- History of Eastern Europe
- A Captivating Guide to a Shortened History of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Moldova, Belarus, and Romania
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jay Herbert
Sounds like...
Reviewed: 11-03-22
Very annoying mispronunciations from reader, which are weird and deliberate from an English speaker with an otherwise good tone and pace.
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Pandemia
- How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
- By: Alex Berenson
- Narrated by: Alex Berenson
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,342
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,221
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,209
The most important fact about the coronavirus pandemic that turned the world upside down in 2020 is that our response to it has been an epic overreaction driven by a disastrous confluence of public and private interests - all of them purporting to “follow the science”. Since the lockdowns began, millions of Americans have relied on the reporting of Alex Berenson. Exposing the hysteria and manipulation behind the worst failure of public policy since World War I, this clear-eyed journalist has been a critical source of reason and truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- By Robert M on 11-30-21
- Pandemia
- How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
- By: Alex Berenson
- Narrated by: Alex Berenson
Another good book by this author
Reviewed: 12-19-21
A good author, with a well researched book. Unfortunately the subject matter is horrifying - how the COVID tragedy was made far far worse by ideology, fame seeking, and greed.
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What Really Happened in Wuhan
- By: Sharri Markson
- Narrated by: Danielle Carter
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 290
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 253
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Story5 out of 5 stars 250
The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that the virus had a natural origin, ridiculing anyone who dared contradict this view. Tech giants swept the internet, censoring and silencing debate in the most extreme fashion. Yet it is undeniable that a secretive facility in Wuhan was immersed in genetically manipulating bat-coronaviruses in perilous experiments. And as soon as the news of an outbreak in Wuhan leaked, the Chinese military took control and gagged all laboratory insiders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone should listen to this
- By Todd on 10-01-21
- What Really Happened in Wuhan
- By: Sharri Markson
- Narrated by: Danielle Carter
Necessary read
Reviewed: 11-21-21
In exploring the response to the virus, this book further exposes the extent of CCP influence around the world and how the CCP are not the only ones with a vested interest in covering up the origins of the virus.
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Putin’s People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West
- By: Catherine Belton
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 120
In Putin's People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton tells the untold story of the rise of Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him. Delving deep into the workings of Putin's Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the free-wheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs who in turn subverted their country's economy and legal system and expanded its influence in the West.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor
- By Ludo on 05-20-20
- Putin’s People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West
- By: Catherine Belton
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
Starts out good, goes of the rails in the 2010s
Reviewed: 07-22-21
The book is rather good up until the early 2010s. The author discredits herself jumping on the Trump Russia collusion band wagon even while admitting that the sanctions Trump imposed had heavy consequences for the Russian elite. No mention at all of Barrack Obama asking Putin for space during his second election or Hillary Clinton signing off on the sale of US uranium interests to Russian owned front company. Most laughably, Biden is made out as some type of anti-corruption VP. The detailed parts of the book are the transfer of power from the Yeltsin family to Putin and other former KGB.
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How to Be Yourself
- Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety
- By: Ellen Hendriksen
- Narrated by: Ellen Hendriksen
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,480
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,221
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,209
Up to 40% of people consider themselves shy. You might say you're introverted or awkward, or that you're fine around friends but just can't speak up in a meeting or at a party. Maybe you're usually confident but have recently moved or started a new job, only to feel isolated and unsure. If you get nervous in social situations - meeting your partner's friends, public speaking, standing awkwardly in the elevator with your boss - you've probably been told, "Just be yourself!" But that's easier said than done - especially if you're prone to social anxiety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Life" Changing
- By Lisa on 05-22-18
- How to Be Yourself
- Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety
- By: Ellen Hendriksen
- Narrated by: Ellen Hendriksen
Very useful
Reviewed: 02-04-21
Probably the best audiobook I have heard on social anxiety. Very useful tools and background for those who want to do something about thier social anxiety. Pleasant presentation.
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The Molecule of More
- How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
- By: Daniel Z. Lieberman MD, Michael E. Long
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,852
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,419
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,399
In The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Did you know conservatives have more orgasms?
- By Josh on 10-21-20
- The Molecule of More
- How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
- By: Daniel Z. Lieberman MD, Michael E. Long
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
A nice surprise
Reviewed: 12-13-20
I had thought this would be a short dry detailed book on a limited topic. I was wrong. It is a full length very informative book with a professional narrator and interesting presentation. A great listen.
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