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- A Child and a Country at the End of History
- By: Lea Ypi
- Narrated by: Rachel Babbage, Lea Ypi
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated," she swore loyalty to the Party. In her eyes, people were equal, neighbors helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world.
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Tour de force
- By W. Norman on 01-22-22
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- A Child and a Country at the End of History
- By: Lea Ypi
- Narrated by: Rachel Babbage, Lea Ypi
Must read
Reviewed: 08-06-23
Beautiful story about how propaganda skews so much and the struggles of those who endure radical regime change.
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Women on the Move
- The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing
- By: Roger Gilles
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers, and mastery of the bicycle became a metaphor for women’s mastery over their lives. Spurred by the emergence of the “safety” bicycle and the ensuing cultural craze, women’s professional bicycle racing thrived in the United States from 1895 to 1902.
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Amazing!
- By Makeup Forever on 06-12-21
- Women on the Move
- The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing
- By: Roger Gilles
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
Amazing!
Reviewed: 06-12-21
Wonderful and sadly forgotten history. It is unfortunate that many women athletes still face a steeper hill to climb than men. Well worth a listen.
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America: The Farewell Tour
- By: Chris Hedges
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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America, says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress, the pornification of culture, the rise of magical thinking, the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet.
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Terrible narrator for the book
- By H U Rehman on 10-01-18
- America: The Farewell Tour
- By: Chris Hedges
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Not surprising but nonetheless shocking.
Reviewed: 11-16-20
If you want to understand reality, read this book. It’ll reality distresses you, don’t read this book.
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The Death of Expertise
- The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
- By: Tom Nichols
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything and all voices demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism.
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Disappointing
- By iKlick on 09-10-17
- The Death of Expertise
- The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
- By: Tom Nichols
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Hit and miss
Reviewed: 03-09-20
This book is on a really important and worrying topic. The beginning and the end of the book are the best parts. However, there is a tendency of the author to generalize too much. He misses important nuances frequently. He often takes examples that support his position (I agree with him in terms of anti-expertism) and then uses them to paint a generalized picture. However, in reality things are more complex. I was most disappointed with Chapter 5, which amounts to a rather cherish complaint about students. I am an academic and yes of course you will have to deal with some students who do not communicate well or are rude/entitled. These students are a minority though and these situations are a learning opportunity. If your view of tenured faculty is that students should sit down and shut up because you have credentials and have read a topic a lot more than they have (of course you have!), then I think you're missing part of the point of being an instructor. I am at a 2nd tier public university. Perhaps my world is different to yours. Because the author took a few examples and then wrote the chapter as though painting all students with the same brush, he gave a false impression of campus life and ironically encouraged the death of expertise, because lots of these students will be future experts. If the public thinks students are generally entitled idiots then they are hardly likely going to be impressed by their future expertise. Removing this entire chapter would not diminish the value of the book at all. There is an interesting contradiction in the book too. While discussing a crackpot who claimed taking large amounts of Vitamin C was good for you, the author oddly switches to using Noam Chomsky as an example of how people should stick to their field; i.e. Chomsky is an important academic in the field of linguistics and should have nothing to say about foreign policy. This is an absurd argument because even though most people probably can only truly master a single topic in their lifetime, it doesn't mean no one can. Chomsky's clear capacity to do this is obvious since his writings on both topics are demonstrably correct. Again, nuances missed. My final comment regards the job of science. Please don't claim that science explains and should not make predictions. 'Doing' science is literally an exercise in testing predictions. If scientists didn't make predictions then they would have nothing to do. Worth a read still.
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