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The Technological Republic
- Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
- By: Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska
- Narrated by: Nicholas W. Zamiska
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 230
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Story4 out of 5 stars 209
In this groundbreaking treatise, Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska offer a searing critique of our collective abandonment of ambition, arguing that in order for the U.S. and its allies to retain their global edge—and preserve the freedoms we take for granted—the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our most urgent challenges, including the new arms race of artificial intelligence. The government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that has propelled Silicon Valley’s success.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Incoherent ramblings
- By Not Dick Hausler on 04-02-25
- The Technological Republic
- Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
- By: Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska
- Narrated by: Nicholas W. Zamiska
Provocative and inspiring
Reviewed: 04-30-25
Incredible important for this moment in time and for our future. What do we need in order to thrive or even survive what's ahead? How can we shape it?
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The Cuckoo's Calling
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37,402
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33,937
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33,871
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he’s living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry - known to her friends as the Cuckoo - famously fell to her death a few months earlier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable debut mystery set in London
- By Tracey on 05-26-13
- The Cuckoo's Calling
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Captivating
Reviewed: 06-20-24
I couldn't wait for the next opportunity to put it on and listen to the story unfold.
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OnScript
- By: M. Lynch M. Bates D. Johnson E. Heim C. Tilling A. Hughes J. Martinez-Olivieri
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Engaging Conversations on Bible and Theology
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging conversation!
- By Alex on 11-22-22
Engaging conversation!
Reviewed: 11-22-22
Very interesting and thought provoking discussion. She presented perspectives and explanations of passages that seem to make better sense than how I've understood them in the past.
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The Modern Scholar: Ethics: A History of Moral Thought
- By: Professor Peter Kreeft
- Narrated by: Peter Kreeft
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 360
This course addresses some of the eternal questions that man has grappled with since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust? Most human beings have the faculty to discern between right and wrong, good and bad behavior, and to make judgments over what is just and what is unjust. But why are ethics important to us?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly Good
- By J. Maxwell on 11-02-09
Thought provoking and excellent
Reviewed: 09-06-22
The lecturer provided clear summaries and explanations of the great ethical systems and effectively brought them into conversation with one another. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in ethics or how to live the good life.
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The Modern Scholar: Tolkien and the West
- Recovering the Lost Tradition of Europe
- By: Professor Michael Drout
- Narrated by: Michael Drout
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 457
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 403
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 396
The works of J.R.R. Tolkien are quite possibly the most widely read pieces of literature written in the 20th century. But as Professor Michael Drout illuminates in this engaging course of lectures, Tolkien's writings are built upon a centuries-old literary tradition that developed in Europe and is quite uniquely Western in its outlook and style. Drout explores how that tradition still resonates with us to this day, even if many Modernist critics would argue otherwise. He begins the course with the allegory of a tower....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Drout's or Modern Scholar's Best
- By Amy on 01-28-13
- The Modern Scholar: Tolkien and the West
- Recovering the Lost Tradition of Europe
- By: Professor Michael Drout
- Narrated by: Michael Drout
Wonderful
Reviewed: 09-14-20
A wonderful and enjoyable analysis of Tolkien's work and influence. The professor presents his content in an organized, understandable, and entertaining way. I highly recommend.
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The Hunger Games
- Hunger Games, Book One
- By: Suzanne Collins
- Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 15,723
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13,603
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13,574
Emmy Award-winning actress Tatiana Maslany narrates a brand-new special edition recording of the first audiobook in the worldwide best-selling trilogy from Suzanne Collins! In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by 12 outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now THIS is what Katniss is supposed to sound like
- By Carly Jurica on 11-02-18
- The Hunger Games
- Hunger Games, Book One
- By: Suzanne Collins
- Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Great Story - Performance and Volume Way Off
Reviewed: 07-18-20
This series is bound to be a classic for good reasons. The author really did create a valuable piece of literature. Filled with themes, reflections, and allusions to the late Roman Empire. Taking a creative look at human nature with an eye on history.
Unfortunately, the reading and sound mixing was really off. Much of the dialogue was performed with unnatural or out of place emphasis, tone, and especially volume. The reader was not able to convey tone or emotion without vastly changing her volume--this was the bane of the recorded series. She would gradually get quieter and quieter until she was literally whispering so that you'd have to turn up the volume to make out what she was saying. Then she would raise her volume and literally yell parts she was trying to convey intensity and force you to turn the volume way down. These unmanageable volume swings really had a poor effect on the experience.
The producer did not direct the reader that this kind of acting does not translate to audiobooks. In addition, the post production sound mixing didn't correct for this unpleasant feature of the audio series.
The poor emphasis and drastic volume swings by the reading, took a really great series and made it a chore to constantly have to manually adjust the volume. I hope they will go back someday and remix it to at least fix the volume.
I still finished the audio series and enjoyed the story so I won't discourage anyone from taking in a great piece of literature, just be prepared to manage the volume throughout the series.
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Adaptive Markets
- Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
- By: Andrew W. Lo
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 253
Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe - and as financial bubbles, crashes, and crises suggest. This is one of the biggest debates in economics, and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hang on the outcome. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew W. Lo cuts through this debate with a new framework.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Skip it
- By L and S Sadler on 08-16-18
- Adaptive Markets
- Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
- By: Andrew W. Lo
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Instructive & innovative
Reviewed: 10-27-18
A fresh look at the structure of economic behavior on the individual and systemic levels. Lo offers insights from behavioral psychology and behavioral finance but moves beyond individual fun facts to construct a framework for understanding how our behaviors amass into the system wide forces affecting economics in general and financial economics in particular. He then takes this more dynamic and realistic model for understanding human economics and applies imagination to paint pictures of possibility for the future.
Financial systems are comprised of human decisions--let's decide to make those systems the kind that can create more good things in the world and solve some of the troubling problems we face as a whole.
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Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- By: Simon Sinek
- Narrated by: Simon Sinek
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27,709
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23,548
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23,401
The inspirational best seller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our why. Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time - with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the why of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Useless Dribble
- By Chimdi Azubuike on 03-10-18
- Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- By: Simon Sinek
- Narrated by: Simon Sinek
Excellent!
Reviewed: 04-26-18
How to get focused, stay focused, and make a difference with what you value most.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- By: Daniel Kahneman
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 20 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,747
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,375
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,220
The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Difficult Listen, but Probably a Great Read
- By Mike Kircher on 01-12-12
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- By: Daniel Kahneman
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
Wonderful
Reviewed: 07-02-17
This book is required reading for all humans. Takes leaps and bounds to illuminate how we really make decisions, common biases and fallacies, and how to adjust our behavior, relationships, organizations, and processes in order to make better choices in all areas of life.
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Norse Mythology
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69,871
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 62,526
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 62,243
Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds; delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants; and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Comedy-Tragedy of Gods Giants Dwarfs & Monsters
- By Jefferson on 02-24-17
- Norse Mythology
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
A captivating retelling of the Norse Myths
Reviewed: 03-05-17
The author/reader retelling the Norse Myths in cohesive and entertaining form. Very enjoyable and informative.
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