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Basic Economics, Fifth Edition
- A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 23 hrs and 47 mins
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In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives. Drawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell explains basic economic principles for the general public in plain English.
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Phenomenal!
- By Trenton on 10-04-15
- Basic Economics, Fifth Edition
- A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Stirring and thoroughly sourced
Reviewed: 05-25-23
Littered with examples from history and theory, this book is an essential introduction to the source of most political fallacy, namely the misunderstanding of markets, prices, profits, and the underlying messages they impart.
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Eversion
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: Harry Myers
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it's up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.
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An entirely new level of science fiction
- By Possum Bean on 01-08-23
- Eversion
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: Harry Myers
Best AR novel since the last one!
Reviewed: 09-05-22
I've been a fan of Alistair Reynolds for quite some time.
while anxiously awaiting the follow up to bone silence, I was happily surprised to enjoy this excellent original story in the mean time. A fabulous trun which evokes numerous sophisticated references to HP Lovecfafts *in the mouth of madness* while maintaining a separate and unique fabrication as it were. I highly recommend, and intend to revisit immediately :)
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Speechless
Reviewed: 07-01-21
For all of the many reasons that communism must be defeated in all of its forms, the examples contained herein of the immutable inhumanity of mankind when empowered by the state are more than sufficient primary references to use against the rising authoritarian left at your next encounter. Chilling, Kafka esque, and yet hopeful. Truly one of the best books I've 'read' in the last decade.
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Hugh Mann
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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This explosive new audiobook challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans and Nazis, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on the trendy intellectuals of our times as well as historic interpreters of American life.
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Great Book, Somewhat Misleading Title
- By ComputerBastard on 05-15-09
- Black Rednecks and White Liberals
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Hugh Mann
Simply astonishing
Reviewed: 09-25-20
Not only is this book one of the most well structured and researched books in this field, I'm astonished that the name Thomas Sowell is a new one to me. Apparently I have a lot of catching up to do. In a time as troubled as the one we find ourselves in today, this book provides a revealing portrait of the past and a prescription for the cognition virus of identity politics and intersectionality.
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
- By: Dale Carnegie
- Narrated by: Andrew MacMillan
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!
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This is well worth listening too! Main points are.
- By Ralph on 10-21-11
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- By: Dale Carnegie
- Narrated by: Andrew MacMillan
Informative
Reviewed: 01-11-20
Good information, solid reasoning.
My only problem with the book is the lack of counterpoint and that the (almost certainly apocryphal) anecdotes come through a bit too rosy a lense
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God Is Not Great
- How Religion Poisons Everything
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris' recent best-seller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos.
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5-Star Writing. Perfect Author Narration.
- By Michael on 12-13-09
- God Is Not Great
- How Religion Poisons Everything
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
Deeply disturbing and raucously funny!
Reviewed: 10-27-19
Easily one of the most important works written in my lifetime.
Christopher Hitchens offers a serious, witty, and excoriating examination of the many crimes and intellectual fallacies of organized belief.
Fun to read, and profoundly informative!
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12 Rules for Life
- An Antidote to Chaos
- By: Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge MD
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.
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Not Your Average 'Self Help' Book
- By The Bookie on 06-04-18
- 12 Rules for Life
- An Antidote to Chaos
- By: Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge MD
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
Moving, and illuminating
Reviewed: 04-12-19
I'm not typically into self help, but after watching JBP lectures on YouTube, I thought I'd give this a listen... It has changed my life and the way I view the world, and I'm a better person for having changed.
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Elysium Fire
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants.
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Reynolds fan left cold
- By Zach on 01-25-18
- Elysium Fire
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Lee
Terrific
Reviewed: 12-26-18
I am a big fan of Alastair Reynolds work and Elysium Fire is no exception.
As with his other works, the author slowly teases out the threads from a densely woven narrative, allowing your anticipation and imagination to become engaged and consumed by the breadcrumbs he has so deftly placed in your mind.
As usual, the performance of John Lee can not be overstated as being tremendously rich and thoroughly complimentary to the work.
While this book (as with all AR books I've read to date) possesses the essential ingredients for a good sci-fi story, it is with the addition of self consistency, though provoking world building, and the underpinnings of strong storytelling that separate the good from the great in this genre, and Elysium Fire delivers on all counts.
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Artemis
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Rosario Dawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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A ferrari with no motor
- By will on 11-18-17
- Artemis
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Rosario Dawson
meh
Reviewed: 10-12-18
well woven story overall.
irrational and irritating protagonists.
narration was 'OK' dispite some pathological mispronunciations.
was expecting better based on the hype.
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