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Days of Rage
- America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
- By: Bryan Burrough
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 593
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 521
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 520
From the best-selling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s. The FBI combated these groups and others as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American government. The FBI’s response to the leftist revolutionary counterculture has not been treated kindly by history, and in hindsight many of its efforts seem almost comically ineffectual, if not criminal in themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing treatment of tough history
- By Steven on 05-13-15
- Days of Rage
- America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
- By: Bryan Burrough
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Incredible insight into forgotten history
Reviewed: 09-23-24
I am blown away by all of the fantastic and frankly brutal events that are typically glossed over in out textbooks. This book covers many domestic terrorists organizations ranging from Weather Underground to the SLA. The ending contains updates as to where they are today (I was surprised to learn that some are still in prison)
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Ultra-Processed People
- Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
- By: Chris van Tulleken
- Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken, Dr. Xand van Tulleken
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 462
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 400
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 400
How much of our daily caloric intake comes from ingesting substances that, technically speaking, do not meet traditional definitions of “food”? Chances are, if you’re eating something that came wrapped in plastic and contains a funky ingredient you don’t have in your kitchen, it's most likely—almost definitely—ultra-processed food, or UPF.
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1 out of 5 stars
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ridiculously biased take on data
- By Brit_TV_fan on 11-25-23
- Ultra-Processed People
- Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
- By: Chris van Tulleken
- Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken, Dr. Xand van Tulleken
Food vs food-product
Reviewed: 06-19-24
My wife and I are updating our approach to eating and this book could not have been a better start. It outlines the problem with our modern diet and goes into detail to make clear what the consequences are. I fully recommend this book.
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Food Fight
- GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
- By: McKay Jenkins
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding that can help feed an ever-increasing global population and adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Critics, meanwhile, call for their banishment, insisting GMOs were designed by overeager scientists and greedy corporations to bolster an industrial food system that forces us to rely on cheap, unhealthy, processed food so they can turn an easy profit.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A collection of superficial research
- By Amazon Customer on 09-11-17
- Food Fight
- GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
- By: McKay Jenkins
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
Very interesting analysis of the GMO debate
Reviewed: 05-24-23
This book is incredible and does a good job of being unbiased. After reading this book, I realized that a big part of the problem is that both sides are talking past each other.
I've always been a proponent of using genetic engineering to solve problems, and I still am. So I couldn't understand why people where against GMOs. After reading this book, I see that oftentimes, the non-GMO debate is more a rejection of concentrated industrial agriculture. Many of the benefits of the technology are lost because of the way the technology is being used (most GMOs are used for fast foods and processed foods, not grocery store produce). I think that understanding this distinction will provide more fruitful and productive conversations.
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Not Accountable
- Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions
- By: Philip K. Howard, Mitch Daniels - foreword
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
Elected officials answer to public employees. Basic tools of good government have been eliminated. There's no accountability, detailed union entitlements make government largely unmanageable and unaffordable, and public policies are driven by what is good for public employees, not what is good for the public. Public unions keep it that way by brute political force—harnessing the huge cohort of public employees into a political force dedicated to preventing the reform of government. The solution, Howard argues, is not political but constitutional.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Depressing but relevant
- By Emma on 06-15-23
- Not Accountable
- Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions
- By: Philip K. Howard, Mitch Daniels - foreword
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Short, powerful examination of public sector union
Reviewed: 05-24-23
This was an excellent read. I've been reading about growing pension deficits and wondering how we got here. This book lays it out. My only critique is that there isn't a chapter with solutions or next steps.
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Twilight of Democracy
- The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Anne Applebaum
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,212
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,908
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,890
From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Modern Dictators & President who wants to be them
- By AJ on 07-23-20
- Twilight of Democracy
- The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Anne Applebaum
Highly Recommend
Reviewed: 09-02-22
This is a good read - especially for those of us on the political right. With today's absurd and toxic rhetoric, it's easy to become jaded and ignore legitimate red flags as of overreaction from the left.
While Anne focuses more on the authoritarian right, her perspective as a cold war anti-communist keeps her arguments grounded and relatable. This book feels more like a recalibration and reminder to stick up for Liberalism than another "anyone who disagrees with any of my points is a Nazi" sob piece.
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The Road
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23,010
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17,964
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17,976
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ARE YOU CARRYING THE FIRE?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-14-16
- The Road
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Wonderful read but definitely not a light read
Reviewed: 10-18-21
Make sure that you ate in the correct mood, ie this is not a book to randomly listen to
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The Name of the Wind
- Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1
- By: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 27 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 107,826
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97,327
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 97,348
This is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not sure why the reviews are so polar opposite.
- By Aaron Altman on 06-28-09
- The Name of the Wind
- Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1
- By: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
wonderful
Reviewed: 06-09-18
Overall, this was a wonderful experience. I am definitely looking forward to the next books
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Fat Chance
- Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
- By: Robert H. Lustig
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,339
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,140
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,131
In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering our biochemistry and driving our eating habits out of our control. To help us lose weight and recover our health, Robert Lustig presents personal strategies to readjust the key hormones that regulate hunger, reward, and stress; and societal strategies to improve the health of the next generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Changed the Way I Eat
- By ash kasper on 03-04-13
- Fat Chance
- Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
- By: Robert H. Lustig
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
This book is incredible!
Reviewed: 01-16-17
The first part of being healthier is understanding the chemistry of the body and the effects that different foods have on our bodies. This book has been part of a lifestyle change that has resulted in feeling healthier - a byproduct of this has also been weight loss.
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Whole Earth Discipline
- An Ecopragmatist Mainfesto
- By: Stewart Brand
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Stewart Brand (afterword)
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 79
An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet. According to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are under way on Earth right now. Climate change is real and is pushing us toward managing the planet as a whole. Urbanization - half the world's population now lives in cities, and 80 percent will by midcentury - is altering humanity's land impact and wealth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book is incredible
- By cuban_merch87 on 11-03-16
- Whole Earth Discipline
- An Ecopragmatist Mainfesto
- By: Stewart Brand
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Stewart Brand (afterword)
This book is incredible
Reviewed: 11-03-16
I'm an engineer. I've always been skeptical of the magnitude of man-made global warming. A piece from NASA was enough to convince me that I was wrong - that exogenous factors are not enough to explain the increasing rate of change in the climate. That's when I decided to give environmentalists another look. This book opened my eyes. I assumed that most environmentalists were activists - emotional and blind to science. Instead, I found the movement very conducive to science. Best yet, the author shares the engineering perspective of trying to understand the problem in order to fix it.
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