Brent Raeth
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A Thousand Brains
- A New Theory of Intelligence
- By: Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell, Richard Dawkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought.
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Starts out good, ends up a train wreck
- By Warren on 03-15-21
- A Thousand Brains
- A New Theory of Intelligence
- By: Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell, Richard Dawkins
interesting read
Reviewed: 01-10-23
really enjoyed how this book made. you think about how you think. delving in the way the brain works and how it impacts the way we see the world.
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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
Enlightening
Reviewed: 11-29-22
What a wonderful book about perspective, responsibility, and knowledge. This book really helps you to think and work through the deluge of information we see every day.
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The Checklist Manifesto
- How to Get Things Right
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies - neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist.
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Riveting!
- By Tad Davis on 01-11-10
- The Checklist Manifesto
- How to Get Things Right
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Great concepts! great ideas!
Reviewed: 10-10-22
I really enjoyed this book. The concept of simplicity in work keeps coming up in every book I read and this one just hammered that idea home.
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Near Dark
- The Scot Harvath Series, Book 19
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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The world’s largest bounty has just been placed upon America’s top spy. His only hope for survival is to outwit, outrun, and outlast his enemies long enough to get to the truth. But for Scot Harvath to accomplish his most dangerous mission ever - one that has already claimed the lives of the people closest to him, including his new wife - he’s going to need help - a lot of it. Not knowing whom he can trust, Harvath finds an unlikely ally in Norwegian intelligence operative Sølvi Kolstad.
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Excellent but not his best!
- By Wayne on 07-22-20
- Near Dark
- The Scot Harvath Series, Book 19
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
another great
Reviewed: 09-17-20
this book was wonderful as are all these in the series I would recommend them to anyone
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Backlash
- The Scot Harvath Series, Book 18
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. These men were considered part angel, part demon. Their loyalty was to their families, their friends, and their kings. You crossed these men at your peril. And once crossed, there was no crossing back. They were fearless; men of honor who have been known throughout history by different names: Spartan, Viking, Samurai.
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Sensational!!!
- By shelley on 06-25-19
- Backlash
- The Scot Harvath Series, Book 18
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
great book
Reviewed: 08-20-20
I really enjoy all the books in this series this is no exception can't wait for the next.
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Foreign Agent
- Scot Harvath, Book 15
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schulz
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Terrorism in Europe has spun out of control. The United States has decided on a dramatic response. Now, the CIA needs a very special kind of operative. Scot Harvath has exactly the skills the CIA is looking for. He's a former U.S. Navy SEAL with extensive experience in espionage. Working for a private intelligence company, he will provide the CIA, and more important, the President, with absolute deniability.
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Typical Brad Thor novel (absolutely great)!
- By Wayne on 06-15-16
- Foreign Agent
- Scot Harvath, Book 15
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schulz
Wonderful
Reviewed: 10-01-19
Wonderful book as is all in the series. Would recommend to anyone looking for a good thriller.
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The Athens Solution
- A Short Story: Scot Harvath, Book 14.5
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz, Brad Thor - afterword
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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A deadly betrayal is at the center of The Athens Solution. When a game-changing weapon falls into the wrong hands, the US ambassador to Greece must risk everything to recover it, even if it means participating in a ruse that costs his life. With the ambassador dead and the device still at large, covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath rushes to eliminate a terror cell about to sell the dangerous technology to Iran.
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Brad Thor should stick to writing novels...
- By Wayne on 02-20-16
- The Athens Solution
- A Short Story: Scot Harvath, Book 14.5
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz, Brad Thor - afterword
great as usual
Reviewed: 09-16-19
excellence is what I expect from Brad Thor and excellence is what weighs what I get great short story can't wait for the next book
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Code of Conduct
- A Thriller
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Hidden deep within one of the world’s most powerful organizations is a secret committee with a devastating agenda. Its members are afforded incredible protections—considered elites, untouchables. But when four seconds of video is captured halfway around the world and anonymously transmitted to DC, covert wheels are set in motion, and counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is tapped to undertake the deadliest assignment of his career.
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Good...but cliché packed
- By wendy sefert on 07-16-15
- Code of Conduct
- A Thriller
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
wonderful again
Reviewed: 09-12-19
just like I expected Brad Thor delivered a really great book love the story love the characters love everything about this series
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Act of War
- A Thriller
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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After a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a startling and terrifying claim. There’s just one problem - no one knows if she can be trusted. But when six exchange students go missing, two airplane passengers trade places, and one political-asylum seeker is arrested, a deadly chain of events is set in motion.
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FANTASTIC AS ALWAYS - ANOTHER WINNER!
- By KAREN on 07-16-14
- Act of War
- A Thriller
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
awesome
Reviewed: 08-27-19
much like all the books in the series this book was excellent in all aspects
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Hidden Order
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Action-packed from the start, Hidden Order demonstrates yet again why Brad Thor is the "master of thrillers". A string of high-profile kidnappings has Washington, D.C., in a frenzy. When the victims begin turning up dead, frenzy turns to panic. And when the ransom demand is finally made public, panic will turn to terror. In Brad Thor's riveting new thriller, the stakes have never been higher, nor the lines between good and evil so hard to discern.
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good
- By Amazon Customer on 10-14-21
- Hidden Order
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
Another great in the series.
Reviewed: 07-18-19
The legend of Scot harvath continues this book was excellent in all aspects and was exactly what I expect from the series.
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