Paul Heinen
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Nature Wants Us to Be Fat
- The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent - and Reverse - It
- By: Richard J. Johnson MD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Nature puts a “survival switch” in our bodies to protect us from starvation. Stuck in the “on” position, it’s the hidden source of weight gain, heart disease, and many other common health struggles. But you can turn it off.
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So informative.
- By Geneva on 02-18-22
- Nature Wants Us to Be Fat
- The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent - and Reverse - It
- By: Richard J. Johnson MD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Very informative
Reviewed: 06-12-23
Great information. Drags on a bit with redundant studies. Could use a ‘Cliff’s Notes’ version to come back to.
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The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get
- An Entrepreneur's Memoir
- By: Joe Ricketts
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell, Joe Ricketts - epilogue
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Harder You Work, The Luckier You Get offers a view inside Joe Ricketts’s mind, giving listeners a visceral understanding of how entrepreneurs think and act differently from the rest of us - how they see the horizon where we just see a spreadsheet. Ricketts also talks honestly about his shortcomings as a manager, the career sacrifices his wife made for his business, the complexity of being a father, and the pain of his mentor’s betrayal and of his brother’s death from of AIDS. Overcoming these and other challenges, he built a company now worth $30 billion.
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Good title....
- By John Mallory on 06-15-20
- The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get
- An Entrepreneur's Memoir
- By: Joe Ricketts
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell, Joe Ricketts - epilogue
Ok, could have been shorter.
Reviewed: 02-18-22
A bit boring in the middle. Narrator’s voice was weak. Author’s, who did the epilogue, would have been much better.
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Napoleon
- A Life
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 32 hrs and 56 mins
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Andrew Roberts' Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine.
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What a dynamo!
- By Tad Davis on 01-16-15
- Napoleon
- A Life
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: John Lee
Too long
Reviewed: 06-04-19
It was just too long. It could have been told in less than half the time. French pronunciations were overdone.
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John Quincy Adams
- By: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of La Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries, secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president. John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Adams as a towering figure in the nation’s formative years.
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Informative and well written.
- By Gotta Tellya on 08-20-14
- John Quincy Adams
- By: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
A must ‘read’
Reviewed: 05-01-19
You may never find a greater statesman and patriot our country has ever produced. To say he laid the groundwork for Abraham Lincoln is an understatement.
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God
- A Human History
- By: Reza Aslan
- Narrated by: Reza Aslan
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as one long and remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As Aslan writes, "Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless if we are believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves."
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His best work yet
- By Jeff M on 11-15-17
- God
- A Human History
- By: Reza Aslan
- Narrated by: Reza Aslan
Waste of time
Reviewed: 04-16-19
A complete dud. I got this thinking it would enlighten me and help me understand another path to God. Instead it was a self-absorbed discombobulation of the author’s personal struggles with the existence of God.
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The Patriarch
- The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
- By: David Nasaw
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 30 hrs and 55 mins
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy - whose life spanned the First World War, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the Cold War - was the patriarch of America’s greatest political dynasty. The father of President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy, 'Joe' Kennedy was an indomitable and elusive figure whose dreams of advancement for his nine children were matched only by his extraordinary personal ambition and shrewd financial skills.
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Commissioned by the Kennedy Family...
- By E.R. on 09-09-13
- The Patriarch
- The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
- By: David Nasaw
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
An honest depiction.
Reviewed: 04-11-19
I’m glad they included all the bad with the good. Kudos to the Kennedy descendants for allowing so. It was amazing to learn how Rose and Joe spent so much time apart.
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Grain Brain
- The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers
- By: David Perlmutter, Kristin Loberg
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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Renowned neurologist David Perlmutter, MD, blows the lid off a topic that's been buried in medical literature for far too long: carbs are destroying your brain. And not just unhealthy carbs, but even healthy ones like whole grains can cause dementia, ADHD, anxiety, chronic headaches, depression, and much more.
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Family history of Alzheimers? Read this!
- By Amazon Customer on 09-19-13
- Grain Brain
- The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers
- By: David Perlmutter, Kristin Loberg
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
It SHOULD change your life
Reviewed: 03-04-19
Totally changes what you’ve been led to believe about carbs, fat, and cholesterol. Hopefully he’s correct. So far I’ve followed his low-carb guidelines for the last 2 weeks and I already notice significant changes - I’m not as tired and sluggish on my daily commute, I feel mentally more sharp, and I’ve already dropped about 5 pounds. Getting down to 40 carbs per day is very difficult if not impossible, but just minimizing carbs down to under 50% of my total caloric intake seems to be making a big difference. I use the Fitbit app to track my food intake. It’s not the best, especially for creating custom foods or meals, but it tracks against my calories burned from my Fitbit watch.
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Capital Gaines
- The Smart Things I've Learned by Doing Stupid Stuff
- By: Chip Gaines
- Narrated by: Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines, Melinda Paul, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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The funny and talented Chip Gaines is well known to millions of people as a TV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband to Joanna, and father of four in Waco, Texas. But long before the world took notice, Chip was a serial entrepreneur who was always ready for the next challenge. Whether it was buying a neighborhood laundromat or talking a bank into a loan for some equipment to start a lawn-mowing service, Chip always knew that the most important thing was to take that first step.
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Bootstrap Success from a Serial Doer
- By Mavwreck75 on 10-23-17
- Capital Gaines
- The Smart Things I've Learned by Doing Stupid Stuff
- By: Chip Gaines
- Narrated by: Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines, Melinda Paul, Rachel Agee, Gabe Wicks
Nothing there.
Reviewed: 09-17-18
I believe that they’re very good people, but there isn’t much content that justifies writing a biography.
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Catastrophe 1914
- Europe Goes to War
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 25 hrs and 25 mins
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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I - from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battlesthat occurred before the war bogged down in the trenches.
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outstanding
- By Jean on 12-13-13
- Catastrophe 1914
- Europe Goes to War
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Too narrow in scope.
Reviewed: 09-03-18
Misread that this only covered the year 1914. Was looking for something that had a broader focus.
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