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The Collected Schizophrenias
- Essays
- By: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well.
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Narration way too slow
- By Diane on 04-27-19
- The Collected Schizophrenias
- Essays
- By: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
Yales Finest
Reviewed: 05-20-23
I thought it was going to be collected essays from multiple victims of schizophrenia, instead it was all one author’s perspective. Lost interest when she called the greatest president, we have had in a long time a racist and xenophobe. It is incredible how many people come to our country and receive the best educational experiences the nation has to offer yet quickly begin to complain about our politicians and programs schools have to abide by to keep (those that are there to learn) safe. I mean Yale is a school not a hospital. The author made so many references to movies, here’s an idea, turn off the TV and visit your local animal shelter. Adopting an animal in need is the best therapy you will ever receive. It is not all about you!
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The Bitcoin Standard
- The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
- By: Saifedean Ammous
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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When a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party” to a small Online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an unstoppable and globally-accessible hard money alternative to modern central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.
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Less Bitcoin, more old Austrian Economics Vendetta
- By Brian Considine on 07-19-19
- The Bitcoin Standard
- The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
- By: Saifedean Ammous
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
Pretty good
Reviewed: 08-05-18
Finally, someone that sees and articulates the ignorance of Keynesian economics! Very interesting angles on gold and its relevance now and in the future. A good and balanced view of the true power of Bitcoin and the block chain versus the hype and copy cats that surround it.
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The Science of Getting Rich
- By: Wallace D. Wattles
- Narrated by: Jim Roberts
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Wallace D. Wattles was an American "New Thought" writer who wrote this amazing little book in 1910. It caused a sensation then, and continues to be popular today. In fact, Rhonda Byrne said that part of her inspriation for her best-selling book and film The Secret came from this book.
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good with a few grains
- By Edward on 05-30-09
- The Science of Getting Rich
- By: Wallace D. Wattles
- Narrated by: Jim Roberts
Good vibes
Reviewed: 02-06-18
The optimism and encouragement written of in this book is surely an important part in getting rich.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told - So Far
- Why Are We Here?
- By: Lawrence M. Krauss
- Narrated by: Lawrence Krauss
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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In this grand poetic vision of the universe, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world that underlies reality - and our place within it. Reality is not what you think or sense - it’s weird, wild, and counterintuitive, and its inner workings seem at least as implausible as the idea that something can come from nothing. With his trademark wit and accessible style, Krauss leads us to realms so small that they are invisible to microscopes, to the birth and rebirth of light, and into the natural forces that govern our existence.
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Mean spirited rant against religion
- By A Kindle Customer on 08-06-18
- The Greatest Story Ever Told - So Far
- Why Are We Here?
- By: Lawrence M. Krauss
- Narrated by: Lawrence Krauss
consequence of modern secular opinion
Reviewed: 12-31-17
It's sad that people in top positions such as universities frame their supposed careers on attacking a people's faith. In this book the only take aways are billions of tax dollars are spent to give these ivy league schools generations to study concepts only a very few people can understand or apply to useful utility. The over arching structure of this book alike so much other garbage coming out of the modern secularist acedimia is God doesn't exist and my brief little existence and learning can prove it because I am a professor with a degree. People like this author live in the clouds high above the common person. Their life's and lifestyle's are a direct consequence of the structures that have been formed by all of the regular common folks strivings over the mallinia. They cannot explain how life or the universe began or how it will end but they can declare in their pathetic hatred of generations of peoples faith that there is no God and creator of it all. So you want to misquote the holy scripture. I have a couple verses for you: 2 Timothy 3:7. Romans 1:22.
It seems extremely unfortunate that such people that are in such positions give lipservice to being open minded but close their minds to the fact that God does indeed exist and has utilized everything that we seek to understand in the creation of us and it all. I love science and the advancements made and the one to come. I also believe in and love God. So to every generation that has come before us you had it right even though you didn't have it all explained by egocentric phyisist in high offices. To the real scientist that indeed will keep an open mind and will attack ignorance instead of a peoples faith and God the questions and answers and benefits are already ours.
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The Bitcoin Big Bang
- How Alternative Currencies Are About to Change the World
- By: Brian Kelly
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Get a handle on the digital currency revolution, and learn how to get onboard. The Bitcoin Big Bang is a guide to navigating the uncharted territory of digital currency. Written by CNBC contributor Brian Kelly, this book goes beyond Bitcoin 101 to explain how this transformative technology is about to change the world.
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Not technically accurate, but a fair amateur view
- By Brian Goss on 03-27-15
- The Bitcoin Big Bang
- How Alternative Currencies Are About to Change the World
- By: Brian Kelly
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
Pretty good
Reviewed: 10-07-17
Just a quick comment about this book. I did like it and was decently informative. The only negative is the last chapter. The book was going pretty well until it fell off of a cliff and he spent the complete last chapter/hour reading New York business law.
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The Serial Killer Whisperer
- How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers
- By: Pete Earley
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
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From New York Times best-selling author Pete Earley: the strange but true story of a man who suffers a traumatic brain injury and as a result is given the ability to converse with the world's most terrifying criminals.
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The Banality of Evil
- By Cynthia on 09-08-13
- The Serial Killer Whisperer
- How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers
- By: Pete Earley
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
SPOOKY
Reviewed: 11-07-16
If you could sum up The Serial Killer Whisperer in three words, what would they be?
Unmatched, Well done, Very Scary
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Serial Killer Whisperer?
Metheney YIKES!!!!!!
What does Alan Sklar bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Decent delivery
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Oh wow yeah Metheney's acts and Gore's .....
Any additional comments?
With over 700 books in my library I rarely write reviews unless they are that good or that bad. The bad details of this book make it one of the best in my opinion. The writer has certainly found a niche into getting the horror filled facts from some of the worst people to ever live. Many books I've read in this genre have some sort of lame code that prevents them from digging deep into the facts and details of the who, what, when, where and especially the how - NOT SO with this book.
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The Industries of the Future
- By: Alec Ross
- Narrated by: Alec Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next 10 years - for businesses, governments, and the global community - and how we can navigate them.
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Disappointing
- By Nicolas on 02-21-16
- The Industries of the Future
- By: Alec Ross
- Narrated by: Alec Ross
cant afford a professional narrator
Reviewed: 06-30-16
Thankfully its over
obvious information
Technology has created jobs while destroying others
women will enter the workforce
learn to code computers,........
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Einstein's Revolution
- By: John T. Sanders
- Narrated by: Edwin Newman
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Isaac Newton's world had operated in a fixed, rigid, "absolute" framework of space and time. Yet discoveries about electromagnetism in the late 19th century created new and troubling inconsistencies. In 1905, Einstein's name became synonymous with "genius" when his Special Theory of Relativity challenged old concepts in physics. Hertz, Lorentz, Mach, Poincare, and others illustrated the ideas that so captivated Albert Einstein and shook our conventional ideas about space and time.
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Narration ruined it
- By XEVEN on 06-14-16
- Einstein's Revolution
- By: John T. Sanders
- Narrated by: Edwin Newman
Narration ruined it
Reviewed: 06-14-16
Unfortunately the artificial accents broke my focus, I couldn't focus on the subject but rather trying to decipher what was trying to be said.
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The Universe in Your Hand
- A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
- By: Christophe Galfard
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Christophe Galfard's mission in life is to spread modern scientific ideas to the general public in entertaining ways. Using his considerable skills as a brilliant theoretical physicist and successful young-adult author, The Universe in Your Hand employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not explain to us, the theories that underpin everything we know about our universe.
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Awesome
- By AJ on 02-28-17
- The Universe in Your Hand
- A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
- By: Christophe Galfard
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
childs play
Reviewed: 05-29-16
maybe ok for a child aspiring to be an astronomer or physicists but i found it hard to stay with.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Fates of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Abridged
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In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life.
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Badly Abridged
- By Carol L. on 09-19-06
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Fates of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
glad it was abridged
Reviewed: 05-14-16
It was OK, a lot of it is obvious information. kind of depressing at first how most of the animal species have been forced into extinction. So is the world in which we live sad then, now and to come, except of course for the "haves"
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