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Disrupting the Game
- From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo
- By: Reggie Fils-Aimé
- Narrated by: Reggie Fils-Aimé
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Reggie Fils-Aimé, retired President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America Inc., shares leadership lessons and inspiring stories from his unlikely rise to the top. Learn from Reggie how to leverage disruptive thinking to pinpoint the life choices that will make you truly happy, conquer negative perceptions from those who underestimate or outright dismiss you, and master the grit, perseverance, and resilience it takes to dominate in the business world and to reach your professional dreams.
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Engaging Autobiography
- By Ryan on 12-07-22
- Disrupting the Game
- From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo
- By: Reggie Fils-Aimé
- Narrated by: Reggie Fils-Aimé
Great story
Reviewed: 10-15-24
Incredible story about one of the most successful CEO in the US. You will hear great advises for life and business.
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Aliens of Extraordinary Ability
- By: Maeve Higgins, Shaina Feinberg
- Narrated by: Maeve Higgins, Cristela Alonzo, Alysia Reiner, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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New immigrant Sadie - fresh from her small hometown in Ireland - moves to the US on a tourist visa for three months. In order to remain in the country, she decides go for the elusive "O1" visa - for “persons of extraordinary ability”. As Sadie pursues her quest for legal status, she joins a collective called "Nature Fans", whose members are also on a clock, trying to figure out how to stay in the country. Together the group alternately fights and works the system and grows close in the process.
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An honest look at immigration, emotional, funny
- By Sam Green on 10-11-19
Relatable nice stories
Reviewed: 01-21-23
Amazing stories about how difficult immigration is in the US and how stressful it could be
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Blood Gun Money
- How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
- By: Ioan Grillo
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner city America and across the border as Mexico’s powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren’t often connected in our heated discussions of gun control - but they should be. In Ioan Grillo’s groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, he shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas and how it has made the continent the most murderous on earth.
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Another great book by Ioan Grillo.
- By Cody Bad on 03-01-21
- Blood Gun Money
- How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
- By: Ioan Grillo
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
A lot of useful information about the gun problem
Reviewed: 05-21-22
This is a great book, fool of great journalism investigation. For sure helps to understand the problem of gun trafficking and the role of American gun owners
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How Civil Wars Start
- And How to Stop Them
- By: Barbara F. Walter
- Narrated by: Beth Hicks
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents? Or is this the start of something bigger? Barbara F. Walter has spent her career studying civil conflict in places like Iraq, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka, but now she has become increasingly worried about her own country.
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Reveals the limits of a Political Science approach
- By Bill on 01-17-22
- How Civil Wars Start
- And How to Stop Them
- By: Barbara F. Walter
- Narrated by: Beth Hicks
What are you waiting for?
Reviewed: 04-29-22
Its April 2022. Get this and finish it before it is too late. You have the chance to start and make a difference, this book will help
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Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- By: Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
- Narrated by: Richard Harries
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school - we systematically get the answers wrong. In Factfulness, professor of international health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two longtime collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens.
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Great Read not for Listening
- By carlos gomez on 06-01-18
- Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- By: Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
- Narrated by: Richard Harries
As he said, it needs update
Reviewed: 09-07-21
None of the data probably applies after Trupism, COVID19 and right extremist raising again. The pademic specially has shown how FRAGILE that "progress" that he puts this book thesis is on. He forgets that if it is not sutained and strog progress, it shouldn't count. I think he even makes an analogy of a house with good and bad foundation. Silly of him not to reflect.
He mocks about the "missidea" of Europeans considering the US very conservative, hmm, Trump?
He talks about a "global pandemic" as something that at the time he wrote this, improbable. I guess COVID19 is ROFL at him
Cinical from his part to view many times SME's with suspicious or even suggest people to do that considering that in his book, he puts himself in a position of "expert in Facttulness", therefore, is he also full of it? Is this book full of sh**? I don't think so. However he lose a lot of credibility and his book
So, it doesn't matter how much someone that was BORN WHITE on a LV1 country travel or have annecdotes or interactios with that world, that LV1 person would NEVER understand a minority on a LV3 or LV4, therefore it is even a little insulting to praise from a LV1 born white perspective that "things are not that bad", well, sorry
I think is insulting to say "so much progress has been made" when it has cost lives of people like Harvey Milk or Marsha P. Jonson, just to give one topic example of people that literally died because they fought for that progress. This is the "look from up" that he even criticize
Although his intentions are good, this book is golden ammo to someone that is in LV4/3 country, was born in middle(as he states majority of pop)/upper income and has right extreme conservatives ideas (inside its mind or in public). If your are a US FoxNews watcher or Trumper, YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK!! (I hope the author realize that this is not a compliment)
Even if all my points are still debatable or even easily turned down, I'm just following his advice
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It's Not What It Looks Like
- By: Molly Burke
- Narrated by: Molly Burke
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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Close your eyes and get ready to see the world in a new and more positive way. As a child in Toronto, Molly Burke was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa and became completely sightless as a teenager. Now an award-winning YouTube star and global influencer, Molly shares what it’s like to be a purple-haired, pink-obsessed fashion and makeup lover in a seeing world. She speaks with authenticity and candor about how she tackles the preconceived notions we have around blindness; Molly has made it her mission to make us see her - and ourselves- in a wholly empowering way.
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Authentic, heart-wrenching, infinitely hopeful
- By B Halliday on 08-02-19
- It's Not What It Looks Like
- By: Molly Burke
- Narrated by: Molly Burke
Nice story
Reviewed: 08-17-21
It was a very pleasant listen. It is great to hear perspectives from people like her and also understand them.
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This Will Only Hurt a Little
- By: Busy Philipps
- Narrated by: Busy Philipps
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Busy Philipps’ autobiographical audiobook offers the same unfiltered and candid storytelling that her Instagram followers have come to know and love, from growing up in Scottsdale, Arizona, and her painful and painfully funny teen years to her life as a working actress, mother, and famous best friend. Busy is the rare entertainer whose impressive arsenal of talents as an actress is equally matched by her storytelling ability, sense of humor, and sharp observations about life, love, and motherhood. Her conversational writing reminds us what we love about her on screens of all sizes.
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I wanted to like it so much...
- By Amy Isbell on 10-18-18
- This Will Only Hurt a Little
- By: Busy Philipps
- Narrated by: Busy Philipps
Incredible stories, worth to listen
Reviewed: 08-13-21
She is just great. Her life stories are incredible relatable and it is hard to hear all the difficulties she had go through, even probably most of people thinks that his life has been so easy. At the end, she is right, it should be only "me and my friends"
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¿Por qué fracasa Colombia?
- By: Enrique Serrano López
- Narrated by: Gonzalo Rojas
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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Tras el rotundo éxito de William Ospina con Pa' que se acabe la vaina, Enrique Serrano escribe aquí su propia visión del pasado y el futuro del país desde una acera ideológica distinta y con un resultado igualmente notable.
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¿Por qué fracasa México?
- By John V on 08-08-21
- ¿Por qué fracasa Colombia?
- By: Enrique Serrano López
- Narrated by: Gonzalo Rojas
¿Por qué fracasa México?
Reviewed: 08-08-21
De no ser nuestros orígenes prehispánicos, las conclusiones alcanzadas por el autor fácilmente aplican a México. Debemos ambos pueblos reflexionar sobre lo planteado en este libro y corregir incluso ideas que el mismo autor tiene equivocadamente
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HDP
- By: Sabina Berman
- Narrated by: María Eugenia Toussaint
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Hugo David Prado está en la cima. Yates, mansiones, bancos, una televisora, una red extensa de tiendas y cien empresas más conforman su riqueza, sin embargo su ambición no tiene límites. Por eso, cuando una pandemia global sacude al país, encuentra la manera de transformar la desgracia colectiva en la oportunidad para triplicar su fortuna.
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increíble
- By Anotony on 07-21-21
- HDP
- By: Sabina Berman
- Narrated by: María Eugenia Toussaint
EXCELSIOR!!!
Reviewed: 07-19-21
Increíble valentía de esta novela, la cual queda casi claro a quien se refiere. Me consta que el HDP es un miserable y sus directivos una bola de esclavizadores. Ansió el día que hagan pagar a este HDP y a sus mirreyes.
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The Burnout Generation
- By: Anne Helen Petersen
- Narrated by: Anne Helen Petersen
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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In January 2019, culture writer Anne Helen Petersen set the internet on fire with her viral BuzzFeed essay diagnosing “millennial burnout” - a chronic state of stress and exhaustion that’s become a “base temperature” for young people today. Now, she continues this generation-defining conversation in a brand-new format, interviewing millennials around the country about their own deeply personal experiences with burnout, and the culture that creates it.
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Needs less emoting, more courageous questioning
- By Michael H on 10-07-19
- The Burnout Generation
- By: Anne Helen Petersen
- Narrated by: Anne Helen Petersen
A lot to understand
Reviewed: 07-12-21
there is a lot of information on this book. I think that boomers and old millenials are the people that will get more benefit of it
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