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Why Are We Yelling?
- The Art of Productive Disagreement
- By: Buster Benson
- Narrated by: Buster Benson
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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Have you ever walked away from an argument and suddenly thought of all the brilliant things you wish you'd said? Do you avoid certain family members and colleagues because of bitter, festering tension that you can't figure out how to address? Now, finally, there's a solution: a new framework that frees you from the trap of unproductive conflict and pointless arguing forever.
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Interesting Topic But Unrealistic
- By Ed Barberi on 02-28-20
- Why Are We Yelling?
- The Art of Productive Disagreement
- By: Buster Benson
- Narrated by: Buster Benson
Pointless and unreturnable.
Reviewed: 03-09-23
I got this title hoping to make arguments with my wife more productive. Turns out the author isn't addressing such pedestrian topics. Rather that give to the point deescalation techniques and parameters to make arguments more productive, the author seems bent on tackling globalist issues and being down right divisive. This is a book about how to divide people into tribal echo chambers, not about actually solving issues. What a waist of time, and due ti audibles new return policy, a waste of money.
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The Two-Income Trap
- Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke
- By: Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi
- Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable to financial disaster than ever before. Today's two-income family earns 75% more money than its single-income counterpart of a generation ago, but has 25% less discretionary income to cover living costs.
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Read All Your Worth Insteas
- By Lewis E. Weil on 05-19-15
- The Two-Income Trap
- Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke
- By: Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi
- Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
Some good information, half the book is readable.
Reviewed: 03-09-23
This title starts out strong, giving detailed statistics and reasonable analysis. However, the writer then seem to decide that the appropriate solution to bankruptcy is to not have children. It seems like a leep to go from carefully manage your income, and budget your spending, to you deserve so spend all the money you want on yourself for extravagantses, just don't reproduce. The narrator does a good job, and has a pleasant voice and speech style, but the last chapters of this book are just anti-human and down right disgusting. Read it for the early chapter info dump, and ignore the authors self righteous sexist conclusions.
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Of all the things humans rely on plants for - sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber - surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable.
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This is a clip show.
- By Jeff on 07-07-21
- This Is Your Mind on Plants
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Only knocked for redundancy
Reviewed: 01-05-23
Author is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. His style and unbiased research methods open up an objective, reasoned information dump, followed by educated experiences then personal opinions allowing the reader the benefit of developing one's own opinion on the subject matter.
Had I not already listened to the author's book on caffeine, this would likely have been a 5 star review, and if you haven't read it yet, as a caffeine addict, I can recommend it. It is just that the entirety of the section of this work feels like a direct excerpt from that prior experience. Thus making nearly half the book a reread.
God Bless.
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Two Treatises of Government
- By: George H. Smith, Wendy McElroy
- Narrated by: Craig Deitschmann, a Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
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Two Treatises of Government is the most famous and influential defense of limited government ever published. Written during a period of increasing opposition to the restored English monarchy, this work was published anonymously in 1689. It is a classic account of natural rights, social contract, government by consent, and the right of revolution.
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One of my favourites
- By Timoteo on 03-07-18
- Two Treatises of Government
- By: George H. Smith, Wendy McElroy
- Narrated by: Craig Deitschmann, a Full Cast
A history of Two Treatises of Government
Reviewed: 10-13-22
Well written and researched. If you looking for an abridged version of John Lockes book, this is not that. However, it is a compelling, interesting, and informative book.
The Naration is Top Class.
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On Killing
- The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
- By: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
- Narrated by: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed". In World War II, only 15 to 20 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. In Korea, about 50 percent. In Vietnam, the figure rose to more than 90 percent. The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill.
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- By Mattie on 05-20-10
- On Killing
- The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
- By: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
- Narrated by: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
Good information, BUT...
Reviewed: 04-04-22
This book does an in-depth view of a difficult subject. Early on in the book, it discusses psychology without any real background to work off of and ends up trying to tear down important institutions that have gone on since its release to prove the presuppositions wholly invalid.
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Exo-Hunter
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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One thousand years later. Humanity has left Earth behind and is rapidly expanding throughout the galaxy under the banner of The Union, a white supremacist government who racially ‘purified’ the human race hundreds of years in the past. Living on the fringe of this twisted Fourth Reich society, Dark Horse - the only Black man in the Union - commandeers a vessel and scours the galaxy for his missing teammates under the guise of an Exo-Hunter, seeking out exo-planets to satiate the Union’s need for colonization.
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achievement unlocked: "Infinite" level awesomeness
- By Jeffrey and Melissa Potter on 02-18-21
- Exo-Hunter
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
good world building, awkward premise
Reviewed: 03-28-22
story has good world building and decent character development. if the author had stayed away from propaganda, it had alot of promise. after finishing it, l just feel like I watched a CNN wet dream. narrator was outstanding.
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Growing Mushrooms: 3 in 1
- A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide+ Simple and Effective Methods for Indoor and Outdoor Mushroom Farming+ Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake and Oyster Mushrooms
- By: Stephanie Williams
- Narrated by: Claire Natale
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Whether you are producing mushrooms in your backroom from a grow kit or producing them on the scale to augment, or even make a living, this book will walk you through all that you need to know. It is likely that you will start out cautiously at first, but growing mushrooms has a way of roping you in, and with each step of the process that you master, you are going to want to learn more.
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Poor Details
- By Amazon Customer on 06-23-23
- Growing Mushrooms: 3 in 1
- A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide+ Simple and Effective Methods for Indoor and Outdoor Mushroom Farming+ Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake and Oyster Mushrooms
- By: Stephanie Williams
- Narrated by: Claire Natale
In need of an editor.
Reviewed: 09-28-21
The information in this audio book is good, very repetitive, poorly organized, but solid information.
It is the narration that really hurts it. The narrator's speech impediments (multiple) make the book hard to listen to. Although, a halfway decent editor could fix most of those problems in post, if they ever tried.
So, tldr, good information. Mailed in Narration. No attempt at editing.
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Eugenics and Other Evils
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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During the first three decades of the 20th century, eugenics, the scientific control of human breeding, was a popular cause within enlightened and progressive segments of the English-speaking world. This prophetic volume counters the intellectual nihilism of Nietzsche, while simultaneously rebuking Western notions of progress - biological or otherwise. Chesterton expands his criticism of eugenics into what he calls "a more general criticism of the modern craze for scientific officialism and strict social organization."
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Truly Great!
- By No to Statism on 07-26-19
- Eugenics and Other Evils
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Pompous and high handed
Reviewed: 09-07-21
The entirety of this book is written in a pompous and high handed manner. The author is more interested in telling the reader how stupid he is than the actual concept of eugenics. The book concentrates solely on the political aspect and not at all on the scientific concepts. That said, it does bring up several very interesting points testing points. Such as the obvious fact that the implementation of eugenics is not possible.
The narrator does a good job however. And it does get into a more spiritual level of the conversation. All in all, a good good overall read.. If you can wade through the dribble.
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Dark Psychology and Stoicism
- The Ultimate Guide to Apply the Secret Art of How to Read People with Manipulation, NLP, Mind Control, and Persuasion. Influence People with the Art of Stoics
- By: Lucas Hewitt, Jacob J. Daves
- Narrated by: Casey Yarrow, Heath Douglass
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Can you neutralize all the resistance and just ‘get through’ to anyone without all the begging or threatening? Simple; you influence, manipulate, hypnotize and use all manner of dark psychology techniques to get them to do things without them even realizing that you are actually using such techniques! And this book will show you exactly how to make that a reality. Many of the famous and successful people you know already use these techniques at different times to get their way in literally anything.
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God awful
- By Alexander on 05-05-21
- Dark Psychology and Stoicism
- The Ultimate Guide to Apply the Secret Art of How to Read People with Manipulation, NLP, Mind Control, and Persuasion. Influence People with the Art of Stoics
- By: Lucas Hewitt, Jacob J. Daves
- Narrated by: Casey Yarrow, Heath Douglass
Terrible
Reviewed: 07-08-21
This audio book feels like a cut and paste, Google translate dumpster fire. I returned the book after suffering, cross-eyed through it. If there is any good information in this file, it it lost in the grammatical travesty this book represents.
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#1 in Customer Service
- The Complete Adventures of Tom Stranger
- By: Larry Correia
- Narrated by: Adam Baldwin, Larry Correia
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Whether he’s underwriting for an overlord, or wearing a pocket protector in a pocket universe, Tom Stranger has just one policy: providing Quality Customer Service. No alien menace is too menacing, no galactic rift too rifty for the multiverse’s most-trusted Interdimensional Insurance Agent in these three brand-new adventures and two classic escapades.
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First half good
- By Ben Koch on 01-07-20
- #1 in Customer Service
- The Complete Adventures of Tom Stranger
- By: Larry Correia
- Narrated by: Adam Baldwin, Larry Correia
I love this SOOO much!
Reviewed: 03-01-20
Hitler-sarus-Rex try's to do a hial salute with stubby little arms then gets shot with a combat wombat. what's not to love!
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