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Young China
- How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World
- By: Zak Dychtwald
- Narrated by: Zak Dychtwald
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A close-up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990, exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything from money and sex to their government, the West, and China’s shifting role in the world - not to mention their love affair with food, karaoke, and travel. Set primarily in the Eastern 2nd tier city of Suzhou and the budding Western metropolis of Chengdu, the book charts the touchstone issues this young generation faces.
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Erudite, enthralling, and engaging!
- By Anonymous User on 03-22-19
- Young China
- How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World
- By: Zak Dychtwald
- Narrated by: Zak Dychtwald
Very Informative Vignettes of Chinese Life
Reviewed: 07-04-20
I learned a lot about the day-to-day lives of young adults in south east Chinese cities. Their dreams, norms, expectations, struggles, and loves. Very glad I read.
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The Mystwick School of Musicraft
- By: Jessica Khoury
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Amelia Jones has always dreamed of attending the Mystwick School of Musicraft, where the world’s most promising musicians learn to create musical magic. Unfortunately, Amelia botches her audition and her dream comes crashing down—until the school agrees to give her a second chance. Amelia vows to do whatever it takes to make her dream come true.
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What a cute story!
- By Anonymous User on 09-07-19
- The Mystwick School of Musicraft
- By: Jessica Khoury
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Best novel about music I've ever heard!
Reviewed: 05-07-20
Best novel about music I've ever heard! Should delight any young person and/or lover of the musical art.
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Masters of Doom
- How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
- By: David Kushner
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in history - Doom and Quake - until the games they made tore them apart. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry.
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How it was
- By Ryan on 08-27-13
- Masters of Doom
- How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
- By: David Kushner
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Recommended
Reviewed: 04-16-20
Loved learning about the path of id Software and it's founders. Well written and produced.
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Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Full Cast Recording
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Original Recording
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Experience Ender’s Game as you’ve never heard it before! With an all-new, original script written by Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game Alive is a full-cast audio drama that reimagines the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic.
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Don't start with this audiobook.
- By Ryan on 10-24-13
Better Unabridged
Reviewed: 03-19-20
The audio play was very good, but not as great as the novel. I would have preferred an unabridged reading of the novel, including narration. Having different actors for each character's voice was a nice feature, though.
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Seeing Like a State
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.
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Beats a dead horse and then beats it again
- By Nathan Parker on 10-29-20
- Seeing Like a State
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Best Work on State's Vision and Reshaping Forces
Reviewed: 04-02-19
One of the best works in politics, society, and anthropology. Clearly describes and illustrates the relationship between the State and the society it both rules and is embedded in.
Discusses the forces of social organisation both implemented by the State and naturally evolving outside the State, and describes how the State reshapes society to better coincide with its methods of seeing society.
If you liked this, you'll like Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises (examination of the forces behind bureaucracy's behavior - cf Public Choice theory). Also read more James C Scott - Two Cheers For Anarchy (the good in Anarchy) and Against The Grain (the development of States with that of agriculture).
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Morning Meditations for Daily Magic: Part 1
- Audio-guided meditation classes, refreshed weekly starting in February 2019
- By: MoveWith
- Narrated by: Jeremy Falk
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
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Join MoveWith Coach Jeremy Falk and select guest instructors in this uplifting meditation series to create a bit of magic at the start of each day.
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I love my mornings
- By Tiffany Thomas on 02-27-19
- Morning Meditations for Daily Magic: Part 1
- Audio-guided meditation classes, refreshed weekly starting in February 2019
- By: MoveWith
- Narrated by: Jeremy Falk
Good Start to the Day
Reviewed: 02-21-19
Very good for centering yourself going into the day. Short, directed, and refreshing morning meditations.
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