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Gamedev
- 10 Steps to Making Your First Game Successful
- By: Wlad Marhulets
- Narrated by: Yong Yea
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 149
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Story5 out of 5 stars 148
The book guides you through a step-by-step process of making a commercial game. It teaches you how to learn all the necessary skills and covers various aspects of game development: mindset, preproduction, funding, business, law, development, marketing, PR, publishing, distribution, as well as pre-launch, launch, and post-launch strategies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The bible of modern game development.
- By Jason Parks on 11-12-20
- Gamedev
- 10 Steps to Making Your First Game Successful
- By: Wlad Marhulets
- Narrated by: Yong Yea
Great insight
Reviewed: 04-28-23
This book has a lot of concise useful information. Also the author's story is inspiring
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Unprotected
- A Memoir
- By: Billy Porter
- Narrated by: Billy Porter
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,279
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,986
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,976
It’s easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Before Billy Porter was slaying red carpets and giving an iconic performance in the celebrated TV show Pose; before he was the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway’s Kinky Boots; and before he was an acclaimed recording artist, actor, playwright, and all-around diva, Porter was a young boy who didn’t fit in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't know his name
- By Julie Newkirk on 01-04-22
- Unprotected
- A Memoir
- By: Billy Porter
- Narrated by: Billy Porter
incredible
Reviewed: 01-28-22
this was a great book. what an amazing story, very raw and powerful. i highly recommend it.
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Console Wars
- Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
- By: Blake J. Harris
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,547
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,156
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,149
A mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video-game industry. In 1990, Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video-game industry. Sega, on the other hand, was just a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities. But all that would change with the arrival of Tom Kalinske, a former Mattel executive who knew nothing about video games and everything about fighting uphill battles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Was hoping for so much more...
- By Rob G. on 11-17-14
- Console Wars
- Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
- By: Blake J. Harris
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
Loved it
Reviewed: 03-05-21
I grew up on NES and Genesis. What great insight into the behind the scenes.
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The Dragons of Eden
- Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Ann Druyan
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 760
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 665
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 662
Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends - and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly strengthened by historical context
- By RoguePisigit on 12-07-19
- The Dragons of Eden
- Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Ann Druyan
Another informative book!
Reviewed: 12-17-20
Great book and a lot of interesting topics. given that this was written 40 years ago, some of the information is outdated, but I think there are still some universal concepts worth learning about
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The Ultimate History of Video Games
- From Pong to Pokemon: The Story Behind the Craze that Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
- By: Steven Kent
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,055
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 958
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 956
The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics who played them. From the arcade to television and from the PC to the handheld device, video games have entraced kids at heart for nearly 30 years. And author and gaming historian Steven L. Kent has been there to record the craze from the very beginning.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Focuses on the industry more than the games
- By Orion Burdick on 10-06-13
- The Ultimate History of Video Games
- From Pong to Pokemon: The Story Behind the Craze that Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
- By: Steven Kent
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
Great history
Reviewed: 06-29-20
I love videogames and I grew up on the Atari 2600, the first home pcs, and Sega Master System, etc. it was fascinating to hear the history of the those early days. It was apparently very informative to then understand what was happening in the corporate worlds that led my journey from NES to Gameboy to Genesis to PlayStation and so forth
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
- By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Coleman Barks - translator, John Moyne - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 507
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 422
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 413
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of listeners, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi more popular than ever.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By G. Vidal on 04-09-20
Disappointed
Reviewed: 04-09-20
I have never read Rumis writings although I have seen the occasional Instagram post with a poem of his.
As I listened to it, I was really not impressed. It felt like something was off or missing. I wasn't sure if it was the translation or just the poems themselves.
Then I looked at some of the bad reviews and saw that the translator doesn't speak farsi and that this is just not a good translation. That is a bad western modernization of Rumi. Those accusations made sense after listening to the book.
I think you can still draw wisdom from this and certain poems, but ultimately I recommend looking elsewhere
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- A Book for All and None
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Christopher Oxford
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 438
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 377
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 374
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is one of the most extraordinary - and important - texts in Western philosophy. It was written by Friedrich Nietzsche between 1883 and 1885. He cast it in the form of a novel in the hope that his urgent message of the 'death of God' and the rise of the superman (Ubermensch) would have greater emotional as well as intellectual impact.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Great Book and Exceptional Reading
- By JCW on 12-30-16
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- A Book for All and None
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Christopher Oxford
Perhaps reading it would be better....
Reviewed: 10-06-18
Struggled to finish the book. At first it had captured my interest and I was keen to learn about Nietzsche's philosophy but at times it just left like rambling lectures on many tooics. there were definitely great nuggets of wisdom and moments upon which to reflect on, but I feel like it was the English translation that made it a chore to follow. I've read that in it's original language there is a lot of metaphors and wordplay, that maybe was lost on me.
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How to Change Your Mind
- What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 21,492
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18,676
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Story5 out of 5 stars 18,526
When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction, and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delightful trip
- By Paul E. Williams on 05-19-18
- How to Change Your Mind
- What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Very informative
Reviewed: 09-05-18
Everyone should read/listen to this book who has tried or is even interested in psychedelics. Very in depth and informative about the history, key players, previous and current research into assisted psychotherapy, and the experiences themselves.
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