Hugo Pestana
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Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,858
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,309
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,296
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us sapiens? In this bold and provocative audiobook, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here, and where we're going.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life changing book
- By Bradley Janse van Rensburg on 06-13-17
- Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
An amazing narrative in a very compelling style
Reviewed: 11-21-21
YNH is a master of attractive writing and an incredible painter of the nuances of character and the History of evolution of Homo Sapiens and Humankind within the genra.
A deeply compelling book about the ways how we get to whete we are now open the imagination for a next book on where to go from now!
Recommended absolutely
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The Physics of Climate Change
- By: Lawrence M. Krauss
- Narrated by: Lawrence M. Krauss
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
The news is full of hotly debated divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world's most respected physicists and science populizers, cuts through the confusion by succinctly presenting the underlying science of climate change. The audiobook provides a unique, clear, accurate and easily accessible perspective of climate science and the risks of global inaction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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average book very tendencious
- By Hugo Pestana on 10-20-21
- The Physics of Climate Change
- By: Lawrence M. Krauss
- Narrated by: Lawrence M. Krauss
average book very tendencious
Reviewed: 10-20-21
This book is very biased thowards the confirmation of what we already expect to hear about climate change.
models are not as accurate and complete as Krauss tries to defend.
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Hugh Mann
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10,566
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,084
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9,018
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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
A must read for any inteligent mind!
Reviewed: 10-09-21
Great insights into the desmistification of common and groce fallacies about race inequality and social justice.
The best way for minorities to thrive is for them to forget they are it and fight with equal weapons to strive!
Thomas Sowell is one of the clearest mind ever in USA and a great defender if minirities interests and their corresponding education level! A must read for anyone interested in knowing the Truth! 💘
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Fredd Wayne
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 918
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 726
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 718
Ben Franklin's own lively story of his early years is a unique, fascinating, and influential look at this American founding father. It has been taught in schools as a moral tract, as a guide to self-improvement, and as the Great American Success Story. It also is relished both for its insight into colonial life and the mind of the man who most affected the development of our democratic form of government.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- By Karen on 09-25-07
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Fredd Wayne
Great summary of the life of a Great Man
Reviewed: 08-25-21
A glimpse on the Life of one of the true founding fathers of USA and an incredible man for his time and an example for many generations to come on what can be achieved with Wit, solid moral values absorbed and practiced and also a great perseverance alied to a proficient exercice of his language and social cultivation skills 🙏❤
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The Parasitic Mind
- How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
- By: Gad Saad
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,229
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,393
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,362
Serving as a powerful follow-up to Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules for Life, Dr. Gad Saad unpacks what is really happening in progressive safe zones, why we need to be paying more attention to these trends, and what we must do to stop the spread of dangerous thinking. A professor at Concordia University who has witnessed this troubling epidemic firsthand, Dr. Saad dissects a multitude of these concerning forces (corrupt thought patterns, belief systems, attitudes, etc.) that have given rise to a stifling political correctness in our society.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some pros and some cons
- By chris boutte on 10-11-20
- The Parasitic Mind
- How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
- By: Gad Saad
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Great book against current Dark Age of Unreason
Reviewed: 08-19-21
A very important manifest against the actual growth of obscurantism and the widespread tiranny of political corretness, gender and identity politics, fanatic feminism, colour signaling, and other fake ideals and lost causes.
This book contains an important testimony from an original and very creative social scientist that sheds light on the dark sides of modern societies and university campus, exposing the ridiculous flaws of such ilogical movements and nonsensical ideas, using a bright analogy with the biological infectious diseases.
Its also an important manifest to call to action and union against this viral pandemic of infectious ideas that are not only undermining the peace and prosperity of our modern life in the West, as may well compromise the future freedom of thevmany generations yet to come! 🙏 God bless Gag Saad for this great book!
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 359
For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: The union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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RUINED audio.
- By Fred on 06-25-21
- The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: George Wilson
Interesting book for AI and IT progress admirers
Reviewed: 08-15-21
The faith in AI and IT taken to a great level with very valuable insights and predictions of a breakthrough in Computing and AI evolution where the non biologycal intelligence will grow so much faster and exponentially that it not only will be prediminant but will be omnipresent and omniscient in our daily lives. Mankind will leave the biological World to become the first hibrid and bionic Being.
This event is named The Singularity by Kurtzweil, that is so optimistic that even believes that Machines may become conscious, for which there is no scientific evidence yet that may be a possibility!
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Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,226
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,206
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,130
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West but worldwide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We live in the best of all times
- By Neuron on 02-25-18
- Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Good book although a bit political skewed
Reviewed: 08-03-21
Overall a good book demonstrating that we have reasons to believe in Human Progress based on Humanism, Reason and Science. Nevertheless lacks much of historical rigour, attacks all religions as if they had the same historical role and makes the terrible mistake of judging other historical epoques with the ethical and scientific eyes of today, which is a common mistake of leftist intelectuals and the Globalist fanatics that forget to analyse the perils and the negative impact in modern societies of the desregulation of Capitalism to encompass countries that dont respect the Human Rights such as China, Russia, Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, just to name the most important!
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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
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4,780
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,116
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4,049
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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
amazing and truly educative book!
Reviewed: 07-21-21
This is really a very clear and inspiring guide to Basic Economics main pillars and the desmistification of the most common fallacies and historical wrong doings that are still being apllied in the Modern times, besides all the accumulated evidence and the agony, chaos and economical downfall provoked by those wrong pollicies in the past.
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Karma
- A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
- By: Sadhguru
- Narrated by: Sadhguru, Leslie Howard
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,449
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,182
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,179
What is karma? Most people understand karma as a balance sheet of good and bad deeds, virtues and sins. The mechanism that decrees that we cannot evade the consequences of our own actions. In reality, karma has nothing to do with reward and punishment. Karma simply means action: your action, your responsibility. It isn’t some external system of crime and punishment, but an internal cycle generated by you. Accumulation of karma is determined only by your intention and the way you respond to what is happening to you.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ancient teachings revisited
- By Rose Blum on 04-30-21
- Karma
- A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
- By: Sadhguru
- Narrated by: Sadhguru, Leslie Howard
Great and inspiring book!
Reviewed: 05-26-21
this is a great guide for those seeking initiation into the wonderful world of Yoga and to dismistify the concept of Karma, which has been poorly used in the Western culture in recent times!
Thank you Sadhguru for your great work of divulgation and sensibilization of human minds to become less egocentric and dive into the kosmic wisdom of universal energy the binds us all together as one single energetic stream! 🙏
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Liberalism
- In the Classical Tradition
- By: Ludwig von Mises
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 470
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 410
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 402
In 1927, classical liberalism, based on a belief in individualism, reason, capitalism, and free trade, was dying, when one of the 20th century's greatest social thinkers wrote this combative and convincing restatement. Nowhere are the key principles of Mises' philosophy better represented than in this timeless work. Mises was a careful and logical theoretician who believed that ideas rule the world, and this especially comes to light in Liberalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent! Need I say more?
- By Luigi Grimaldi on 03-05-16
- Liberalism
- In the Classical Tradition
- By: Ludwig von Mises
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
good summary of Classical Liberalism
Reviewed: 04-27-21
A necessary and simple guide on the nuances between rhe key political ideologies explainimg clearly the obvious pitfalls of socialism and also of hibrid approaches which may all be considered as interventionism. Only Liberalism by keeping State intervention to the Core and Noble mission of providing essentially Security, Health,Justice and Education and also by ensuring that Economy and Society run by its Natural Course within the Law and suoported on Capitalism and the Basic principle of Private Property, will contribute to the Highest productivity of labor and Overall prosperity of the Community! God bless Mises for his emlightened Work!
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